Gena is an attorney and Founder of connecting rainbows - an organization that connects members of the LGBTQIA+ community with attorneys who specialize in family formation and estate planning, as well as provides fertility resources so you can start, grow and protect your family. She and her wife have two children via Reciprocal IVF.

Listen to Gena as she discusses with Ellen and Jenn:

• “Shopping” for a sperm donor to grow their family.

• Deciding on reciprocal IVF to conceive and carry their children.

• Facing some complications in trying for their second child.

• Overcoming the hurdles.

• Her experience giving birth during COVID.

• Her professional life and background (spoiler – she’s a lawyer!)

• The legal process they had to overcome in their journey.

• Forming her new business, Connecting Rainbows.

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