Rebeca Barroso

Description

Rebeca Barroso was born in Cuba and migrated to the United States with her parents at the age of 13. Rebeca's interest in nursing came through a circuitous route through the late 1960s and early 1970s women's health movement, a branch of the emerging feminist wave. Drawing inspiration from the birth of her first child, Rebeca became involved in childbirth and breastfeeding peer-to-peer support that led her first, to grassroots midwifery; and subsequently to nursing. Rebeca worked for a total of 45 years providing both midwifery and nursing clinical services, and considers her greatest clinical achievement having worked for two decades at the Seton Catholic Charities Clinic in St. Paul, MN until that mission closed in 2016. As of 2023, Rebeca has been teaching nursing at the graduate level for 13 years, and hopes to continue to teach as long as her health holds the space. Rebeca sees in her two children (one a nurse and the other a jeweller) and two grandchildren her most significant contribution.

Participants

• Jocelyn Bessette Gorlin
  
• Rebeca Barroso
  

Interview By

• St.Kate's StoryCorps Project