Haru Shimizu

MSN, CNM, Ruth Brexendorf Stifel Fellow

Haru Shimizu, CNM is from Ohio where she attended The Ohio State University for both undergraduate and graduate studies. Her personal and career journeys took her to Japan where she lived and taught in Suzuka. She spent ten years in Columbus as a Montessori teacher and doula before deciding to pursue midwifery full time.

Haru fell in love with TMC as a student, and after graduating in August of 2024, she joined TMC as a Ruth Brexendorf Stifel Fellow where she remains a devoted and inclusive birth-worker, driven to fight for reproductive justice and full spectrum, high quality reproductive healthcare for all.