Sara Wolfe


Sara Wolfe is an Anishnawbe midwife and founding partner of Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto, which is a group of midwives who offer maternity care to women, particularly those from Toronto's downtown area and from the Indigenous community. Wolfe was a co-lead on the newly established, Midwifery- led and Indigenous governed, Toronto Birth Centre. Wolfe is Anishnawbe with family ties to Brunswick House First Nation, Nishnawbe Aski Nation.

Career

From 1999-2003 Wolfe was an Outpost Nurse in Sioux Lookout and Moose Factory.
Wolfe with fellow Aboriginal midwifery students Cheryllee Bourgeois and Ellen Blais she started the Toronto Aboriginal Midwives Initiative in 2002, and held community meetings and consultations to determine what the Native community wanted and needed.
She worked as a midwife for the Midwives Collective Toronto from 2003–2005. She was Head Midwife in the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sunnybrook Women's College Hospital from 2005–January 2012. From November 2012December 2013 she was Interim Executive Director and Midwife Project Co-Lead at the Toronto Birth Centre Inc.