Midwives
are and always have been the solution
Kolibri International Birth Institute
We are an Institute based in the United States and Puerto Rico dedicated to fostering the expansion of autonomous midwifery education, empowerment, sustainability, and the recognition of midwifery as both an ancestral practice and a professional discipline. We offer continuing education courses, in-person and online workshops grounded in an anthropological framework and equity-based approaches. Our work honors ethical local and international collaboration through partnerships with diverse clinical and traditional experts around the world.
KIBI Education
KIBI Education is an online portal of continuing education courses. We cover over 30 course topics including but not limited to business, medical errors, self care, and so much more! Together, they showcase ten distinct values that define who we are and our mission.
Our values. Our Mission.
At KIBI, our work is guided by a deep commitment to justice, collaboration, and community wisdom. We believe that meaningful change begins with relationships — and that expertise is most powerful when it is paired with humility, listening, and care.
Integrative Pedagogy
Our facilitators, courses , workshops and inmersion trips are center in the integration, of difrent diciplines,skills and real experience of the work of midwives in every community.
Empowering Midwives
KIBI is committed to the recognition, sustainability, growth, and integration of midwives in every country and communuty.
Carrying knowledge forward
We believe in mentoring and nurturing the next generation of midwives. Creating cultural and educational opportunities where guidance, wisdom, are shared and carried forward,
Ethical Collaborations
We uplift collective learning. We recognized that Ancestral knowledge is not data, content, or currency is living, relational, and belongs to the Indigenous communities who carry it.
Commitment to Growth
We believe learning is lifelong. We are committed to reflection, innovation, and evolving alongside the communities and movements we support.
Knowledge Sovereignty
We commit to practices that honor sovereignty, consent, and care for the Facilitators that collaborate over profit or ownership
ETHICAL COLLABORATIONS
KIBI was founded from my experience as a midwife in the diaspora, creating collaborative bonds in which, as African and Indigenous diaspora communities, we preserve, strengthen, and protect our learning, heritage, and ancestral knowledge. We reject extractive models of collaboration that treat Indigenous knowledge as a resource to be taken, commodified, or resold.
~Zul Ruiz Ginés, Founder & Partera (Midwife)
Black History Month :KIBI SPONSOR EVENTS 2026
The National Black Midwives Alliance 2026 Conference: Rooted in Legacy, Rising in Power!
The National Black Midwives Alliance
March 12, 2026 - March 15, 2026
700 Settlers Landing Rd, Hampton, VA 23669
If you could see a better world, you were morally obligated to help bring it into existence. That you should put your time, your energy, your passion, your intellect, your heart, your soul, everything on the line. You shouldn't sit on the sidelines, you should actively advocate for the world you wanted to see, and that world should be one that was better for many, not just for you."
