
Rachel Marriott is a Licensed Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife. She graduated from the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine with her undergraduate degree in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies (a philosophy of public health) while working as a doula and Emergency Medical Technician in the Los Angeles area.
After graduating from USC, she attended the National College of Midwifery, and received her midwifery degree in 2013. She has attended home and birth center births as a midwife all throughout Southern California, as well as overseas in the Philippines. She also teaches clinical midwifery skills for several midwifery colleges, including Midwives College of Utah, Mercy in Action College of Midwifery, and her alma mater National College of Midwifery, where she has been a preceptor since 2017.
Rachel brings calm, supportive energy to the births she attends, as well as a passion for family-centered care. She had home births with all three of her pregnancies, and is so grateful to the amazing midwives who supported her along the way.
In 2021, Rachel became the first out of hospital midwife in Ventura County to precept for California State University Channel Island’s Family Nurse Practitioner program.
In 2023, Rachel became the Vice President: Birth Center Division for the Ventura County Midwives Association (VCMA). With VCMA, she has helped develop and teach a Different Roles, Common Goals presentation to medical students and doctors at a local transferring hospital educating on the Midwifery Model of Care, scope of practice, and midwifery integration into the existing medical framework; and spearheaded Improving Transfers from Planned Community Birth to Hospital sessions with both EMS workers and Ventura County Fire Department leadership.
In 2025, Rachel successfully led Simi Valley Birth Center to achieve Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC) accreditation, becoming the only accredited birth center in all of Southern California as of the time of this writing.