I’m Amelia, and I’m a food doula. A doula originally referred to a companion – meaning “the one who breaks bread with another” from the Latin root com (together with) panis (bread). I use food to accompany people through changes. And, I believe that changing how we relate to food changes us, and in turn, ripples beyond us to change our world, fractally.

I am not a nutritionist or a dietician. In keeping with the doula tradition, I offer non-medical holistic care. I have over a decade’s worth of experience in food service, food cultivation, food systems, food justice, food distribution, food culture. I have worked for various farms, studied and practiced permaculture, started a seed library that grew into a network of seed libraries, helped organize a union, and trained in culinary nutrition to be certified as a natural food chef. I have training as an end of life doula and in politicized somatics, trauma, and resilience through The Everything Space. I carry the lived experience of navigating multiple, massive personal changes – and have been accompanied, fortified, and transformed by the generative power of the Earth in the form of food.