The Moonrise Midwives

To have an autonomous, empowering birth experience, you must be able to act on instinct. This is most achievable in an environment that your nervous system recognizes as familiar and safe, with limited watching eyes, and only trusted supporters.

Hello Home birth

Emily Maldonado, LM, She/Her

Emily graduated from Florida School of Traditional Midwifery in 2018.
Since then she has served as a licensed midwife in central Florida, having attended more than 300 births.

Emily trusts that birthing people have all the equipment and experience necessary to be the authority over their own health care. She desires to educate, support, and protect the people she serves, rather than manage their experience.

Get to know Emily

  • A fan of outdoor adventure

  • Wife of Cristian

  • My kittens Halpert and Keely

  • Bit of a Star Wars fan

Allison Williams, LM, She/Her

Allison graduated from Commonsense School of Midwifery in Orlando. She is a nurse with over twenty years experience in mother/baby health and pediatrics. She has experience as a lactation counselor as well as a midwife assistant. She is a wife and mama of two and has proudly served as a surrogate. She is the lead photographer and also teaches childbirth education (Empowered Birth and Postpartum). 

The Birth Assistants

& Student Midwives

Aelis Rivera, She/They

Aelis is a Queer Bilingual BIPOC Full Spectrum Doula, Certified Perinatal & Childbirth Educator via The Birth Mamas - Doula and Photography Services.  She’s the Secretary & Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Central Florida Birth Network. They’re a Student Midwife with Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery serving with Moonrise Birth Collective.

Aelis has been a Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and LBGTQIA + Advocate for over 20+ years. As a survivor of all these abuses she found it imperative to support other survivors. Originally from the Bronx, NY she worked very hard to educate and support not only abuse survivors but churches, schools and teens in prevention, safety and signs of these abuses. Going into reproductive care was a natural segway for her as she has been able to use her years of advocacy work and incorporate it with her Full Spectrum work to provide accessible, inclusive and respectful care, education and resources to everyone in all aspects of their reproductive journeys.

Alyssa Figueroa, She/Her

Alyssa is a doula, community health worker and student midwife, trained and certified with DONA, StillBirthDay, and the Commonsense Childbirth Training Institute. 

Alyssa was first introduced to doula work at her nephew's birth center birth in 2018 and started her birth work career in 2020 after being laid off from a corporate job due to covid. She decided to take advantage of that time and take a doula training course. The things she learned in that doula training course lit a fire inside of her that grows with every birth she attends. 

Alyssa was born and raised in the Bronx, a place where life was adapt or die, into a big Hispanic family. She’s cared for many babies and children and in her time before beginning her birth career she worked in hospitality and business. All of these things combined with her passion for caring for babies and mother are the foundation for her future as a home birth midwife.