No one should navigate infertility alone
Open to anyone navigating infertility, and built first for the people the system serves last.
What Oshun Griot is
Infertility is common and it is lonely, and for Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous people it is often both at once: treated in rooms where nobody looks like you, priced beyond reason, explained badly or not at all.
We are an infertility company built to close that gap. We match people with a peer who has actually been there. We keep a free directory of providers of color, support groups, and financial help, because finding someone who understands you should not take six months of asking around. We make the films and the reporting that put this on the record instead of leaving it to rumor. And we hold rooms where nobody has to explain their situation from scratch.
Clinicians are part of all of it, because support without clinical grounding is a nice idea that helps no one.
Why we are called Oshun Griot
The name honors two traditions. Oshun is the Yoruba orisha of fertility, love, and sweet waters. The griot is the West African storyteller who keeps a community’s memory, the one who makes sure what happened is not forgotten.
Fertility and storytelling. Put together, they are the whole of the work: protect our stories, reclaim our voices, make room for healing.
Our stories are sacred. Softness is strength. Care that doesn’t see us is not care at all.
Who it is for
Anyone navigating infertility is welcome here. We build first for the people the fertility industry has served last: people of color, people who cannot absorb a $25,000 bill, queer and trans people building families, single parents by choice, disabled people, and anyone who has been told their body was the problem.
People of color experience infertility at nearly twice the rate of white women, and are treated less often and later. Design for the margins and the whole thing works better for everybody.
The founder
Reniqua Allen-Lamphere spent years reporting on the American Dream: who is promised mobility and who actually gets it. Then came the dream she had not thought to question. She started Oshun Griot after four rounds of IVF and years inside a system that was not built for her.
More about Reniqua
Partners, press, and people with something to tell us
Clinics and community organizations building with us, journalists, and anyone who wants their story on the record.