Joyell Arvella, JD (she/her) has been a traditional birth worker for 20 years and is on track to become a Certified Professional Midwife.

Through her work as a medicine woman, teacher, and writer she weaves her gifts to support communities through tangible integration.

While Joyell no longer works in international human rights law, her background in law and racial equity strategy informs her approach to reproductive autonomy.

After sitting with griots and elders to learn the overlaps of midwifery, plant wisdom, and ancestral practices on 5 continents, Joyell created the first birth worker residency to combat burnout, Wombs of Wata, and integration apprenticeship, Lineage in Praxis.

When she is not supporting wombs, you can find her designing the first birth and death oracle deck, soaking in a bathtub somewhere in the world, writing her first birthing memoir, or learning another language.

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