In 2002, Bethany Golden and Angie Rogers founded ICAS/Juntos Adelante, a not-for-profit that focuses on health and human rights in Nicaragua.
The organization seeks out partnerships from local leaders that are community initiated/grass roots projects that strengthen the health infrastructure. These projects are discrete, sustainable and generated and managed by local advocates for change.
Collaborating with renowned midwife and human activist Alicia Huete, known lovingly throughout Nicaragua and the world as “Mama Licha”, Bethany and Angie launched Juntos Adelante’s flagship project to construct and equip the first independently operated midwifery clinic in Esteli, Nicaragua. Today Mama Licha's clinic provides care for the women in the community who need it most.
Bethany and Angie served on the courtesy faculty for the Yale School of Nursing Nicaraguan Community Health rotation from 2003-2008. Together they designed a global nursing rotation for Yale School of Nursing where over 60 nursing students have learned what it is like to provide services in low resource settings and discover the power of community collaboration where projects are designed by the community, operated by the community and meet the specific needs of the community. They have mentored and inspired many nursing and medical students who have gone on to contribute in under-served areas in the United States and globally, providing clinical services in Haiti, Afghanistan, Burundi, and Sudan.
Bethany currently works as a Certified Nurse Midwife for San Francisco Women’s Healthcare Inc., in downtown San Francisco. Her clinical interests include access to reproductive health & contraception, prenatal care, and domestic violence prevention. She has guest lectured at Northwestern Medical School on Domestic Violence Prevention in the Clinical Setting and at the University of California San Francisco on International Midwifery in Low Resource Settings. She earned her BA in History from Brown University in 1995 and her MSN and Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from Yale University in 2003.
Angie currently works as a Nurse Practitioner at the Northwestern Follow-Up Clinic, an innovative practice that provides transitional care and reduces hospital re-admissions for a predominantly underserved patient population. Her clinical interests include community health, women's health, integrative medicine and HIV prevention and treatment. She earned her Masters of Public Health from Yale University in 2000 and her Masters of Science in Nursing from Yale University in 2003.
The organization seeks out partnerships from local leaders that are community initiated/grass roots projects that strengthen the health infrastructure. These projects are discrete, sustainable and generated and managed by local advocates for change.
Collaborating with renowned midwife and human activist Alicia Huete, known lovingly throughout Nicaragua and the world as “Mama Licha”, Bethany and Angie launched Juntos Adelante’s flagship project to construct and equip the first independently operated midwifery clinic in Esteli, Nicaragua. Today Mama Licha's clinic provides care for the women in the community who need it most.
Bethany and Angie served on the courtesy faculty for the Yale School of Nursing Nicaraguan Community Health rotation from 2003-2008. Together they designed a global nursing rotation for Yale School of Nursing where over 60 nursing students have learned what it is like to provide services in low resource settings and discover the power of community collaboration where projects are designed by the community, operated by the community and meet the specific needs of the community. They have mentored and inspired many nursing and medical students who have gone on to contribute in under-served areas in the United States and globally, providing clinical services in Haiti, Afghanistan, Burundi, and Sudan.
Bethany currently works as a Certified Nurse Midwife for San Francisco Women’s Healthcare Inc., in downtown San Francisco. Her clinical interests include access to reproductive health & contraception, prenatal care, and domestic violence prevention. She has guest lectured at Northwestern Medical School on Domestic Violence Prevention in the Clinical Setting and at the University of California San Francisco on International Midwifery in Low Resource Settings. She earned her BA in History from Brown University in 1995 and her MSN and Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from Yale University in 2003.
Angie currently works as a Nurse Practitioner at the Northwestern Follow-Up Clinic, an innovative practice that provides transitional care and reduces hospital re-admissions for a predominantly underserved patient population. Her clinical interests include community health, women's health, integrative medicine and HIV prevention and treatment. She earned her Masters of Public Health from Yale University in 2000 and her Masters of Science in Nursing from Yale University in 2003.
