Amy Popplewell is a Family Nurse Practitioner who practices full scope primary care including perinatal care at Santa Rosa Community Health, a local FQHC. She is also a board member and the Vice President of Better Beginnings, a local birth and breastfeeding nonprofit. She started her journey in healthcare as a birth doula and lactation specialist, attending her first birth in 2010. Working in community health with underserved populations is at the core of her being as a Nurse Practitioner. All of her experience in healthcare has been with federally qualified health centers and look-alikes. She's been volunteering and advocating since she was a child. She started out advocating for wheelchair accessible spaces as a child, then volunteered for the St. Anthony’s Foundation with the unhoused population in San Francisco as a teen, and while she was working in business in her 20s, she started volunteering in the birth and breastfeeding community in Sonoma County with Better Beginnings. She slowly but surely became a Family Nurse Practitioner so she could both advocate for patients and directly work with them on their health and wellness goals.