Nané Jordan, PhD, is a birthkeeper, artist-scholar, community worker and mother of two daughters. Nané has been active in mother-centred birth for over 30 years, and is devoted to women’s spirituality, the divine feminine/female, Mother Earth, and goddess scholarship. She completed her MA in Women’s Spirituality (New College of California), a PhD in Education (UBC), and was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Paris 8, France. Nané currently works in Indigenous family services, and was a lecturer in art education at UBC. She pursues narrative, arts-based, life writing research, collaborative artistic practices (see: http://www.gestareartcollective.com), and publishes widely, including the anthology, Placenta Wit: Mother Stories, Rituals, and Research (Demeter Press, 2017).