Introducing Sorada

SORADA is a firebrand perinatal research and education consultancy. We fuse the rigor of qualitative and quantitative research with the power of transformative personal developmental praxis to advance perinatal and birth justice.

Our approach

We are researchers, public health professionals, birthworkers, and birthing people teaming up to transform perinatal health care. We work with mission-aligned organizations and individuals to amplify their influence and impact to catalyze change. Through our praxis-based approach, we provide research, education, and programmatic solutions, always with the clear aim to shift the status quo of perinatal health in a more just and joyful direction.

Our Work

  • Research

    We love data. Qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, you name it. We can help you answer the questions that supercharge your impact.

  • Education

    We challenge and expand the field with our innovative praxis-driven educational programming, cultivated for leading-edge perinatal professionals and those they serve.

  • Consulting

    Program development, implementation, evaluation, and reporting are just some of the ways we put the research we do into practice with our partners.

  • Advocacy

    We partner with advocacy organizations, government agencies, lawmakers, and activists tackling high-level policy targets that raise the bar for perinatal health.

Meet our team

  • Image of Elisabeth Bolaza, a femme cisgender woman wearing glasses, medium fair skin, brown eyes, light brown hair, glasses.

    Elisabeth Bolaza, Ph.D, MPH (she/her)

    Founder & Lead, Reproductive Anthropologist and Public Health Researcher, author of Pleasure in Birth: Wellbeing, Praxis, and Reproductive Justice (Routledge, 2025).

  • Danielle Schell, MPH, Full-Spectrum Doula (she/they)

    Lead Partner; Public Health Practitioner, Birthworker, Parenting Coach, and Entrepreneur, supporting over 550 pregnancies and 30 losses as a full-spectrum doula.

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Let’s ChanGE the game

We are based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, but we are committed to improving the lives of birthing people everywhere. Our organizational consulting work serves birth professionals in a variety of critical areas: growing joyful workplace cultures, shifting paradigms, and transforming perinatal health care from the inside out and the outside in.

In-person or remote, we’re here for you.

To schedule an initial consultation, email contact@sorada.org.

 

Get started with Sorada, today.