Our Team
Andaluz Midwives
Carrie Duncan, CPM, LDM
Carrie was called to midwifery in 1996 after the homebirth of her daughter, Sierra, in Canby, Oregon. She attended homebirths with her midwife for two years before apprenticing at Andaluz. She graduated from Birthingway College of Midwifery in 2003. She practiced in Portland as a home birth midwife and has lived and practiced in rural Jamaica. Carrie believes that informed choice is a corner stone in quality healthcare and is proud to facilitate women’s choices as a midwife. She has two children, loves the outdoors and enjoys traveling whenever she is off call!
Megan Coppock, CPM, LDM
Megan was called to midwifery work during her own transition into motherhood. In 2006 when her son, Halen, was born at Legacy Emanuel hospital she was overcome with joy and amazement and felt awakened to a life force she had only caught glimmers of before. Three years later, when her daughter, Flora, was born into water at a birth center, she knew that she wanted deeply to support other women in pursuing the birth experience they envisioned for themselves and their baby.
Megan quickly began absorbing birth books, magazines, and connecting with the local out of hospital birth community and eventually found her way to Birthingway College of Midwifery. She has been attending births at Andaluz since 2013, and graduated from Birthingway in 2015.
Megan feels extremely honored to have the opportunity to serve women of all walks of life during their birthing year. She continues to feel inspired by the beauty, power, and vulnerability inherent in birth and birthing women.
When not working with mamas and families she stays busy with her own little family, finding any excuse to play outside with her kids, garden, disappear to the mountains or the beach, eat good food, read books, and seek out new adventures!
Amber Zietz, CNM
Amber was inspired to become a midwife after the birth of her son in 1990. It was after a brief encounter with a community midwife during her last weeks of her own pregnancy that she gained a sense of empowerment. This experience ignited a passion for empowering others to achieve a satisfying pregnancy and birth through information and support.
She attended her first home birth as an assistant while in nursing school on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. The experience was transformational in that she witnessed the power and grace of a birthing woman in own her element.
A graduate of Frontier Nursing University with a Master’s Degree in Nursing and a certificate of midwifery, Amber has been a Certified Nurse Midwife since 2005. During her 16 years as a midwife, she has had the privilege of caring for women and families while practicing in both the hospital, home, and birth center setting.
When she is not attending to families, Amber enjoys exploring the local culinary delights, the beautiful outdoors of Portland and the surrounding areas with her precious rescue pup. She also enjoys spending time with her family and working on arts and crafts projects.
Emily Balaguer, CNM
Emily grew up in Santa Monica, California and attended UC Santa Barbara for her undergraduate degree in Anthropology. She moved to Portland, Oregon in 2017 to attend the naturopathic university in town, NUNM, where she earned her Master's of Science in Nutrition.
It was during this naturopathic nutrition program that Emily discovered her passion for reproductive healthcare, viewing it as the most fundamental form of preventative medicine. She decided to pursue midwifery and graduated from OHSU in June of 2024 with her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in Midwifery.
Emily feels that it is a privilege to be a midwife and hold people's hands through their most intense moments. She views pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and the transition into parenthood as life experiences, as opposed to medical experiences, and she is honored to spend such precious moments in the wee hours of the night with the lovely people who, together, help make Portland feel like home.
When she's not catching babies, she loves to ski, play guitar, and curl up with her kitty and a good novel.
Birth Assistants
Senora Loop, MSM, CPM
Mandy Edwards, CPM
Allison Mahnke, CPM, LDM
Whitney Tiller, IBCLC
Support Staff
Callai Nagle
Outreach + Education Coordinator
Krislyn Mulargia
Childbirth Educator
Makayla Hale
Clinic Coordinator
Administration
Dele Ogunleye, MD
Medical Director
Laura Wiegand
Administrator