Alex Johnston on Facing Infertility

09/15/21 • 19 min

Alex Johnston is a CEO, women’s advocate, policymaker, and lawyer. She’s also a mother of three children, but her journey to parenthood was rife with fertility challenges. She’s championing a call to action about reproductive health, and speaks to us about why we need to be having conversations around infertility more urgently.

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