In Memoriam 🕊️🕯️

Say Her Name: Janell Green

Janell Green was a midwife, a healer, and a devoted protector of life. She spent her days holding others through birth—offering knowledge, steadiness, and care rooted in deep respect for birthing people and their bodies.

Janell passed away moments after bringing her first child into the world.

Her loss is devastating and unjust. A woman who dedicated her life to safeguarding birth should not have been taken at the threshold of motherhood herself. Her passing is not only a personal tragedy, but a collective one felt across birth workers, families, and communities who know how rare and sacred her work was.

Say her name: Janell Green.

We honor her by remembering her service, by continuing the work she believed in, and by demanding safer, more just care for all birthing people. We honor her by protecting life the way she did fiercely, compassionately, and with intention.

Janell Green’s life mattered.

Her work mattered.

Her legacy lives on in her child, in every birth she touched, and in every hand that continues the work because she showed us how.

Rest in power, Janell.

You are remembered. You are honored.

BDDNM 🌵