Nikita Johnson is a 3rd Year Senior Midwifery Apprentice at Charm City Midwives located in Pikesville, MD. She is currently studying under Bayla Berkowitz, a Certified Nurse Midwife at a homebirth midwifery practice. She has formally studied under Midwives Monika Karaosman at Althea Midwifery in Berlin, MD, and Maureen McIver in Westminster, MD. She is enrolled at the National College of Midwifery pursuing her Associate's Degree in Midwifery and is expected to graduate in December 2024. Nikita has many years of hospital-based labor & delivery experience as a Certified Obstetrics Surgical Technologist and has retired from that role after 6 years. She has been a highly regarded hospital birth rights doula in the DMV since 2019.