KATIA MORDAK, RM
I am Vancouver Island born and raised with Spune’luxutth and European ancestry. I am grateful to live, work and raise my family on the beautiful, traditional and unseeded territory of Ligwiłda'xw people; the We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum, Kwiakah, Homalco and K’omoks First Nations.
Prior to midwifery, I double majored in Psychology and Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University while also working and volunteering as a birth doula for mainly marginalized populations.
I learned about Midwifery during my earlier post secondary studies and it felt like the missing piece of care that I wish my Indigenous mother had in her strong and beautiful stories of bringing my brothers and I into the world. It felt like and it was the care I desired when bringing my own two children into the world.
Being a Midwife means to me furthering care that offers individualism, continuity, informed choice, and support for growing families and those who experience loss, specifically with an Indigenous and intersectional lens.
When not practicing this important work you can find me with my family hiking, paddling, biking, meandering forests or trying to get my veggie and flower garden as luscious as my mom does.