Katie Irvine Minich, MS is a Traditional Health Worker Doula and Biocultural Applied Anthropologist based in Oregon. She has been practicing as a doula since 2016 and also serves as the Program Director for Doula Training Center, an Oregon Health Authority approved doula training program. She has been mentoring, teaching and researching doulas since 2020 and currently serves as the lead Research with Doulas and Company.

Katie has authored two peer-reviewed articles on the doula workforce in Oregon, known as the Listening to Doulas in Oregon studies, as well as a co-author of an upcoming chapter in the Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Doulas (2026).

Katie partnered with the Uplift Lab (OSU) and the Oregon Doula Association (of which she has been a member since 2018 and served on the board from 2021-3) as lead researcher on the 2025 Oregon Doula Survey. She holds a BS degree from Southern Oregon University in Sociology and Anthropology and a MS from Oregon State University in Applied Anthropology with an Integrated Studies minor (focused on rural and indigenous studies) and a certificate in College and University Teaching.

Katie has been involved in advocacy and policy work through many avenues in recent years, such as being a panelist and presenter for numerous conferences and summits and participating in testimony and listening sessions on the MOMNIBUS legislation.

Outside of her work, she volunteers in projects centered on reproductive justice, food apartheid and poverty abolition. Katie is also a wife and mother of three wonderful children. She enjoys hikes and foraging in nature, creating art, and reading/writing in her free time.