Dr. Ruby Shah
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Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Shah is a board-certified primary care physician in Internal Medicine with advanced training in health education, public health, advocacy, and outcomes research. Her work reflects a lifelong commitment to health equity, compassionate care, and the creation of systems that truly serve. With over a decade of partnership with nonprofit organizations, she has helped design and implement more than twenty community-based projects that continue to expand healthcare access for underserved populations.
As an experienced medical educator, Dr. Shah has shaped interprofessional learning environments where collaboration and empathy stand at the heart of patient care. She has played a key role in developing innovative clinical skills curricula that blend medicine and engineering — preparing future physicians to think creatively and compassionately in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
A naturally gifted mentor, she has guided countless medical students, residents, and professionals, offering wisdom and support as they grow through the challenges of service. Her mentorship philosophy centers on self-awareness, balance, and advocacy for both individuals and systems.
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Outside of medicine, Ruby is a wife, mother, poet, and lifelong lover of the written word. An avid reader and writer, she spends much of her time with a book in hand or putting her own words to paper. She is the author of Night Song For My Sisters: Endometriosis, Infertility, Loss, and Healing, a collection of poetry born from her own experiences with infertility, loss, and healing. For Ruby, reading and writing are more than favorite pastimes. They are ways of making meaning, finding connection, and giving language to the parts of life that can be difficult to name.
Stacie Larrison
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Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Stacie Larrison is a dedicated advocate for patients navigating chronic illness, infertility, chronic pain, and autoimmune disease. With a background in both nonprofit and healthcare leadership, she blends strategic insight with deep compassion to reimagine how care is delivered for those who have often felt unseen.
A Somatic & Reiki Integration Practitioner, Stacie is certified in Reiki Levels I and II. Her work bridges nervous system education, trauma-informed care, and energetic healing, supporting children and adults in learning how to center, regulate, and gently reset their nervous systems.
As a facilitator, she guides individuals through creative and embodied practices that foster mindful connection and emotional processing. An author and eclectic artist, Stacie teaches the restorative power of creativity as a healing modality—using art to process emotion, deepen self-understanding, and rebuild resilience.
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Outside of Leora, Stacie is a wife, mother of two, writer, artist, and endlessly curious creative. She is happiest making something, dreaming something up, or finding beauty and meaning in the ordinary parts of life. Creativity has always been central to who she is, whether through writing, art, music, or creating spaces where people feel comfortable being fully themselves.
Her greatest joy is her family, and motherhood has profoundly shaped both the woman she has become and the work she brings into the world. Stacie is the author of Mother Nurture, a collection of letters exploring motherhood, healing, identity, and the complicated ways women learn to care for themselves while caring for everyone around them.
At heart, she is a nurturer, a question asker, and a believer that life can hold science and spirituality, seriousness and play, healing and creativity all at once.
