Timoria worked in luxury retail cosmetics for several years and was eventually "discovered" by world-renowned makeup artist Bobbi Brown, who asked Timoria if she would consider moving to New York. Timoria took a freelance artist position with Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and moved to NYC three months later, where she had the opportunity to be part of Bobbi's Beauty Team and work on several shows during NYC Fashion Week. An agent recognized her potential, and Timoria was soon doing makeup for television, film, authors, socialites, actors, and even Royals!

After 27 hours of labor, Timoria experienced a life-threatening postpartum hemorrhage. Her OB/GYN, Dr. B, acted quickly and called a surgeon who performed an emergency embolization to save her life. While both Timoria and her daughter Gigi survived, the traumatic event led to Timoria being diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

While out for frozen yogurt with a friend and their children, Timoria suddenly begins to hemorrhage heavily. Luckily, her OB/GYN's office is just two blocks away, allowing for immediate medical attention. She is transported to a hospital, where she learns she has suffered a miscarriage—a shock, as she was unaware she was pregnant again. This new loss deeply retraumatizes her, as she was still processing the near-fatal childbirth from the previous year. To cope with these consecutive traumatic experiences, Timoria begins a dedicated healing journey, incorporating therapy, restorative yoga, and journaling.

Timoria begins to publicly process her experiences by launching a blog. She writes not only about her traumatic birth journey but also shares stories from her previous career as a professional makeup artist and other life anecdotes. The response is immediate and profound. Women from around the world connect with her story, sending messages of support and sharing their own experiences of birth trauma.

War Veterans who survived traumatic events also welcomed Timoria into their community, and applauded her for speaking openly about PTSD.

Timoria's advocacy begins to resonate with podcasters, health organizations, birth educators, legislators, and the media.

Timoria publishes her first major article, "What No One is Talking About: Maternal Deaths, Mental and Physical Trauma in the United States." While researching, she is confronted with a devastating statistic: Black mothers are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. This revelation frames her own survival of two near-fatal events as statistically miraculous.

This knowledge becomes a pivotal turning point, shifting her advocacy focus squarely onto systemic inequities in maternal health outcomes. Through her writing, she also aims to spotlight the critical need for better postpartum mental health support, recognizing that motherhood—and especially traumatic birth—can be a profoundly isolating experience.

Timoria gave birth to her daughter Harper in March and, just months later, launched a campaign to pass the Maternal Health Accountability Act (H.R. 4216), sponsored by longtime Representative John Conyers, D-MI. To advance the bill, she built a national coalition of survivors, journalists, and researchers, persevering against widespread political indifference and organizational hesitancy. Through determined advocacy—including writing, petitions, and outreach—she fought to highlight the nation's rising maternal mortality rate and the lack of support for affected women. Despite these efforts, the bill stalled in committee with only a 1% chance of passage, a stark example of how systemic political inaction continues to fail urgent public health crises.

Timoria’s influence as a speaker and storyteller on maternal health grew. However, she continued to confront deep-seated systemic inertia, facing non-committal responses from established institutions, including reproductive health orgs and organizations for historically marginalized people. Meetings with congressional staff continued to yield no progress. Alongside these high-level efforts, she remained deeply connected to the survivor community, providing direct support, participating in grassroots projects, and collaborating on state-level legislative work, all while balancing a personal move to Massachusetts to be closer to her husband Bob’s family.

Upon moving to Massachusetts, Timoria focused her advocacy on community-building, founding and leading the Hopkinton Diversity and Cultural Alliance and serving as Chair of the Hopkinton Youth Commission. She launched local initiatives like "Community Conversations," integrated playdates for children of all abilities to play together, and multicultural programs to foster inclusion and dialogue. In parallel, she continued her maternal health work as a coordinator for Postpartum Support International, establishing a peer support group at a local hospital. Her advocacy also reached a national level, as she joined a coalition to lobby on Capitol Hill for the "Bringing Postpartum Depression Out of the Shadows Act of 2015."

Timoria's unique perspective, bridging lived experience with policy, led to recognition on prominent national platforms. She was a featured speaker at the March for Moms Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill and delivered a powerful address, "The Truth About Maternal Health in America," at Massachusetts’s Postpartum Depression Awareness Day. Her expertise was further highlighted in a CNN feature on maternal mortality among Black women. That same year, her advocacy was formalized with appointments to the Senator Ellen Story Special Commission on Postpartum Depression and the President’s Advisory Council of Postpartum Support International.

Timoria directly challenged former Congressman Joseph Kennedy III on political inaction during a maternal health roundtable at Massachusetts General Hospital, prompting a follow-up call and a commitment to collaborate. She advanced her national advocacy as a speaker at the March for Moms rally and by submitting testimony for The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act of 2017, which later became law. In Massachusetts, she delivered keynotes, participated in awareness events, and contributed to media discussions on racial disparities in maternal health. Her expertise was formally recognized with an invitation to join the Advisory Board of the state's Perinatal-Neonatal Quality Improvement Network, ensuring the patient perspective informed initiatives to improve maternal care equity.

Following their initial meeting, Timoria met with Congressman Kennedy and proposed establishing an African American Maternal Health Commission. He advised her to first draft state-level legislation, creating a successful "Massachusetts model" that could later serve as a blueprint for federal action. In response, Timoria launched a state advocacy effort to form a dedicated commission, aiming to address the alarming and worsening disparities for Black mothers in Massachusetts.

Her leadership in this area was further recognized when she was appointed to the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant Advisory Committee, administered by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to ensure the health of the state’s mothers and children. Leveraging this role and her position as Project Lead for Patient Voice and Experience within PNQIN, she crafted a proposal for a commission comprising experts from PNQIN, MCPAP for Moms, the Department of Public Health, providers, patients, and advocates. The initiative seeks legislative sponsorship, aims to publicly recognize Black healthcare professionals  to improve patient trust, and aligns with broader equity efforts like Medicaid coverage for doula services.

A significant milestone was achieved with the Massachusetts Senate's unanimous passage of S.2865, "An Act to Reduce Inequities in Maternal Health," to create a one-year investigative commission. This victory, however, was immediately tempered by a critical dispute, as the final Senate version omitted all explicit racial composition requirements, stripping earlier House language that mandated a majority Black and Brown membership. Timoria and her fellow advocates, who had worked on the bill for two years, saw this as a direct dilution of the commission's ability to center the communities most affected by the crisis. In response, they worked urgently behind the scenes to recommend expert candidates who could ensure the commission authentically represented these impacted voices.

Published in May 2022, the Massachusetts Special Commission’s final report detailed severe racial disparities in maternal health, concluding that systemic racism—not race itself—drives higher rates of severe morbidity and mortality for Black birthing people. Its findings were organized into three key domains: Family and Community Engagement, Public Health Infrastructure, and Healthcare Systems Improvement. For each, it provided specific recommendations, such as funding doula care, strengthening mortality reviews, expanding postpartum coverage, and mandating anti-racism training. The commission's comprehensive "Calls to Action" urged legislative and systemic reforms to eliminate these inequities and ensure equitable care for all state residents.

The Saba family relocates to Fayetteville, Georgia. While Timoria was eager to begin new health advocacy work, her plans were delayed after she was diagnosed with Lyme disease, requiring her to focus on her own recovery. During this period, she researched local needs. She discovered a 60% increase in food insecurity in Fayette County over the past 5 years, which meant that thousands of residents were suffering from hunger. Timoria began volunteering at a food pantry and later designed bilingual surveys to understand the demographics of the families served. Anticipating that food insecurity would increase, she began advocating to legislators to address this crisis through legislation.

Timoria submitted a federal proposal to address food insecurity through Senator Raphael Warnock's office. Concurrently, a significant policy initiative she helped originate in Massachusetts came to fruition with the signing of House Bill 4999. This comprehensive law expands access to midwifery and community-based care, mandates insurance coverage for critical supports such as doulas and postpartum home visits, and establishes programs to reduce perinatal health disparities.