GOLD Speakers

Reka Morvay, MA IBCLC

• Country: United States of America

Biography:

Reka Morvay is a Hungarian-American IBCLC with a Masters degree in Psychology from Cornell University who has been working with families in the perinatal period for almost 20 years. She started her career as a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, doula and community organizer in Budapest, Hungary where she ran the hugely successful Budapest Moms community for English-speaking families in Hungary, and founded a number of still-thriving professional communities on social media. After moving back to California in 2014, she worked in a variety of settings including hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, community clinic, non-profit breastfeeding coalition and private practice. She is particularly proud of her work with BreastfeedLA as an instructor and curriculum writer, and the Inland Empire Breastfeeding Coalition as their education grant project manager. Currently, she is working full time as an inpatient lactation consultant at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Evidence-based lactation with an eye to clinical application remains her passion. Her primary area of interest is the behavioral ecology of lactation, which is the intersection of evolutionary biology, physiology, neuroscience, and anthropology as it relates to human lactation.