Pacifica’s Team
Midwives
Cindy Lara Haag (she, her) Lm, CPM, Director, Co-Founder
Cindy has been a Licensed Midwife attending community births since 1990. After completing her training at Maternidad La Luz, a freestanding birth center and midwifery school in Texas, she accepted a position as a staff midwife and then as clinical director at the birth center. During her seven years there, she provided full scope midwifery care and supervised students and midwives.
In 1998, Cindy gave birth at home to her daughter, Elia. In 2000, she moved to the Bay Area where she was a founding midwife of a Marin birth center and began her own home birth practice in the East Bay. In 2012, she co-founded and opened Pacifica Family Maternity Center. Throughout her midwifery career, she has attended about 1500 births. She is fluent in Spanish and English and committed to making midwifery care accessible to all families.
esther healey (she/they) LM, CPM
Esther realized she was supposed to be a midwife in college after she learned she wasn’t supposed to be a Mechanical Engineer. They dove into the birth world as a doula in 2006 and completed a three year home birth apprenticeship, graduated from the National College of Midwifery, and became a Licensed and Certified Professional Midwife in 2011. Since then, she birthed two children at home, completed the Women’s Functional and Integrative Medicine Professional Training Program in 2019, where she now offers holistic healthcare to non-pregnant people, and maintained a home birth, IUI, and newborn CranioSacral practice.
Esther’s life’s work is rooted in dismantling systems of oppression. They strive to be present in every moment and honor their relationships through mindful listening and dialogue.
mollie sullivan (she/her) lm
Mollie was born and raised in the Bay Area. She became a birth doula in 2003 and ran a birth tub rental business for home births all over the Bay Area. In 2005, she began her formal training at Seattle Midwifery School, where she attended births in homes, birth centers, and hospitals in the Seattle area. Upon graduation in 2008, she moved back home to Oakland where she was welcomed into a busy home birth practice, Nova Midwifery. In 2017, she shifted her midwifery practice to childbirth education classes and at home inseminations with At Home Fertility Services. She now has two school aged children and has returned to birth work!
Mollie has a deep dedication to health education and empowering people to care for themselves. She believes all people should have access to high quality care in this life altering time of life, which includes the education and support that is needed to nurture the changes in self, family, and community.
tracy lough (she/her) lm, cpm
Tracy’s midwifery journey began in 2002 as a childbirth educator and hypnobirth facilitator. Her formal training began with National Midwifery Institute and included an apprenticeship in Los Angeles and Bali, Indonesia and she became a Licensed Midwife in 2011. Additionally, Tracy has training in craniosacral therapy, homeopathy, and herbalism.
Her three children were born at home with loving midwives and her son was born into her 9 year old daughter’s hands. Tracy is proud to be a guardian and keeper of healthy pregnancies and birth and is committed and skilled in providing an emotionally and physically safe space for those who choose community birth. She values building relationships of mutual trust with families through time spent together and sharing information during prenatal visits. She has attended over 450 births and am thrilled to be part of the Pacifica community.
Students
audrey dombroski (she/her) MD student midwife
Audrey has always had a passion for reproductive health and birth work. She graduated from medical school in 2017 with the intention of becoming an OB/GYN. While in school, her path to personal healing led her to the world of herbal medicine. Shortly after, she trained to become a clinical herbalist. Her love of midwifery began after working with midwives for the birth of her first child and that appreciation has continued to grow up until the home birth of her second child. She is currently enrolled as a student midwife at the Midwives College of Utah. Audrey believes in supporting families in making informed decisions about their childbirth experiences. She is passionate about diversifying midwifery and increasing accessibility of midwifery care to BIPOC communities.
Administrators
CARLEE ANN BROWN (she/her) LM, CPM Administrative & Clinical coordinator
Carlee Ann's passion for reproductive health and the perinatal period led her to become a Doula in 2009. Simultaneously, she received her Massage Therapy License and specialized in prenatal and postpartum massage. She studied Biology, Kinesiology, and Holistic Health at San Francisco State University and began growing her midwifery career while attending births as a Doula in home, birth center, and hospital settings.
Carlee Ann graduated from Bastyr University in 2015 with a Master of Science in Midwifery and has been a proud member of the Pacifica Team ever since. In addition to midwifery, she teaches childbirth education, sibling preparation and parenting classes. Currently, she is taking a break from midwifery to focus on being a mama, but remains part of the Pacifica team.