Join Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) to honor Sifu Walter Bosque and Partera Ximena Rojas for a late afternoon tea and wine tasting! 

Walter is one of the original Lincoln Hospital community activists that helped develop the NADA ear acupuncture protocol in the 1970's. Ximena is the founder of Parteria y Medicinas Ancestrales and co-founder of the Refugee Health Alliance which provides integrative health care to migrating people at the Justicia en Salud Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico.

For more information about Walter and Ximena and their amazing community health care activism, scroll down!

This is a fundraising fiesta!

All proceeds will benefit integrative medicine services provided by AWB and the Parteras midwives at the Justicia en Salud Clinic.

If you aren’t able to join us at the party, please consider making a donation to support our work in Tijuana (the Mexico Border Project).

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Walter Bosque

Walter Bosque was a member of the acupuncture collective at the Lincoln Hospital Detox program that developed the now widely practiced National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) protocol. This important community work was prominently featured in the 2018 “People’s Detox” and 2020 documentary film ‘Dope is Death.’ He was one of the first American students to graduate from the Quebec Institute of Acupuncture in 1977, and the first Puerto Rican to be licensed to practice acupuncture in the state of California in 1979. This year marks 45 years that Walter has been bringing acupuncture and tai chi chuan to underserved populations in New York City. Now retired, he continues to volunteer and participate in free community clinics and programs throughout Puerto Rico and New York City with SAPP collective (Salud y Acupuntura Para el Pueblo), New York Harm Reduction Educators (HYHRE), Friends of Brook Park, and Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB). In 2021, he became the Treasurer of the reinvigorated Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA), an organization that originated in 1979 to continue the more revolutionary work begun at Lincoln Detox after the radical origins were suppressed. As a History Keeper, he will be working on his memoir and continuing to teach acupuncture and tai chi.

Ximena Rojas Garcia

CNM Ximena Rojas Garcia is a Midwife and licensed Obstetric Nurse from the National Autonomous University of Mexico who comes from a line of traditional midwives. Ximena has 15 years of experience in her field and as a Midwifery Professor, she has certifications in Obstetrical Emergencies, Neonatal Resuscitation, Water Birthing and Acupuncture. Ximena founded "Partería y Medicinas Ancestrales," the only Mexican Midwifery NGO that includes Midwives from all paths and programs, which was instrumental in providing access to maternal healthcare during the humanitarian crisis after the arrival of thousands of asylum seekers from Haiti, Congo and Central America to the US-Mexico border.

Ximena has been collaborating with Stanford University's Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Pediatricians to train Midwives and Health providers at the US San Diego-Tijuana border to improve birth outcomes. She organizes direct relief to support trauma recovery responding to crises and disasters as a member of Acupuncturists Without Borders. Ximena also created a Doula training program, responsible for training more than 300 Doulas in Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala, aimed at eradicating obstetric violence, lowering the frequency of unnecessary c-sections, and decreasing maternal and newborn mortality.

Ximena is one of the founders and co-directors of Refugee Health Alliance and currently practices clinically at Justicia en Salud RHA Sexual & reproductive healthcare free clinic. She established the first free birth center in Baja California, Mexico that serves vulnerable populations including displaced migrants, asylum seekers, deportees, sexual assault survivors, black, brown and indigenous families who historically had faced forced sterilizations, higher maternal death and newborn death.

Her philosophy of birth is:

Birth is a unique experience like a ceremony that heals trauma and the next generations when we hold space for it to happen.

AWB and the Parteras Midwives at Justicia en Salud Clinic, Tijuana