Rebecca Ruhlen
Rebecca N. Ruhlen, PhD, IBCLC is a sociocultural anthropologist (PhD 2007, U Washington) with research and teaching specialties in East Asia, social movements, gender, motherhood, and breastfeeding. She has done volunteer mother-to-mother breastfeeding support and advocacy since 2006, earned the IBCLC credential in 2010, and became a Breastfeeding USA Counselor in 2011. Rebecca teaches at Davidson College and opened a lactation consulting private practice in 2017. She serves on the Breastfeeding USA board of directors, is co-chair of the North Carolina Lactation Consultants Association, and is active in her local Quaker Meeting. Rebecca has been married since 1995 and has a grown stepson, a soccer/piano-playing teenage son, and a former Shanghai alley cat named Calvin.
