Kristin Mallon attended Johns Hopkins Univeristy in Baltimore, MD and received her bachelor’s in nursing and completed additional courses in lactation and breastfeeding support. She earned her master’s degree in midwifery from New York University where she worked at the Bellevue Birthing Center and attended waterbirths. Before becoming a nurse, Kristin worked in Baltimore as a doula and was trained in acupressure, hypnobirthing, and the bradley method of childbirth.