Engineering Better Healthcare for Women & Girls
Driven by motherhood, medicine and the systems that connect them.
The Mission
Women’s healthcare has been under-studied, under-built and under-served. The systems meant to care for women were too often designed without them. The people redesigning those systems rarely include the people they’re meant to serve.
The Praxis
Threshold Praxis exists to change that and the name says how. Praxis lives in two of the worlds I come from.
In engineering, it means putting theory into practice. It’s about turning what we know into what actually works.
In education, it means learning through reflection and action. The cycle of doing, learning, and doing better.
Threshold Praxis is the practice of focusing on how people move through life’s transitions, reducing trauma, providing comfort, and supporting an easier crossing. The philosophy is that at the moments that matter most, the people we are designing for must be at the center of the design.
The Work
I bring engineering and education rigor to women’s health and work on three fronts at once:
I support birthing families directly, as trusted advocates so a woman is heard, prepared, and in control of her own care.
I find the root cause of system problems. A system is the everyday infrastructure of care. The protocols, the workflows, staffing retention, discharge processes, communication handoffs between shifts, departments and providers, cultural competency, onboarding gaps for new clinicians, scheduling and access barriers for low-income or working women, insurance navigation and much more.
I also build the next generation, preparing girls to see themselves as engineers, physicians, and innovators who will redesign healthcare from the inside.
The Way
The other half of our name? A threshold is a doorway, the moment of crossing from one state into another. Birth is a threshold. So is a girl realizing she belongs in STEM. So is a broken system becoming a better one. From being rushed to being heard, from dismissed to believed, and from being told she can’t to knowing she can. I work at every one of those doorways.
Threshold Praxis: the practice of helping women, girls, and the systems around them cross over.
