Ray Rachlin

Ray Rachlin LM, CPM (she/they) is a midwife, author, queer fertility expert and educator based in Philadelphia. Ray has been providing queer centered fertility care and IUI, community midwifery care, and provider education through their practice Refuge Midwifery since 2017. Ray’s work as a midwife and educator led to becoming an author, and in 2023, her groundbreaking how-to family building guide Babymaking For Everybody co-authored with midwife Marea Goodman, was published. Ray's work has been featured in Vogue, Cosmo, Evidenced Based Birth, Motherly, and Mombian.

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.