Learning @ Refuge | Midwifery • Fertility • Education

A midwife, author, queer fertility expert and educator based in Philadelphia, Ray Rachlin (she/they) has provided inclusive care through their practice at Refuge since 2017. Co-author of the groundbreaking book, "Babymaking For Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LBGTQ+ and Solo Parents," Ray’s work has been featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Evidenced Based Birth. Committed to bringing high quality and well informed Queer & Trans fertility care to mainstream healthcare systems, Ray educates health professionals through online courses and in person at institutions including UC Davis, Mainline Health, Vanderbilt, and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mo Rees (she/her) is a researcher and consultant whose work bridges practice and critique, with a focus on how data can be reclaimed and reshaped to serve, rather than erase, marginalized communities. She holds a Master of Public Health in Community Health Education from San Francisco State University, where her graduate work explored how public health data systems obscure LGBTQ populations by reinforcing structural invisibility and therefore limiting equity-focused interventions. Mo speaks and consults on health promotion program design and evaluation, leveraging mixed methods to tell stories through data, and the politics and possibilities of public health data.