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Lucinda Koza

After becoming her father's sole caregiver at a young age, Lucinda Koza founded I-Ally, a community-based app that provides access to services and support that fulfill the unique needs of millennial family caregivers. Her work has been published in Thought Catalog, Medium Women, Caregiving.com and Hackernoon.com. She was featured in 'Founded by Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Female Founders' by Sydney Horton. Mrs. Koza was a member of the 2021 TechCrunch Include Cohort, the SheWorx + AWS Startups Mentorship Program 2020, and is a current member of All Raise Org’s Visionary Voices Speakers Bureau and the Lyfebulb Patient Entrepreneur Circle. She received the Honorable Mention Award in the Lyfebulb + Orexo Innovation Challenge and the Intermitten’s 2020 Changemaker Award. A passionate storyteller, Mrs. Koza also premiered short film 'Laura Point' at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and most recently co-directed 'Caregivers: A Story About Them' with Egyptian filmmaker Roshdy Ahmed. She has, most recently, become a new mother to fraternal twins, and will be exploring ideas of mothering and caregiving as essential labor in her upcoming work with Authority Magazine.


How I Ally Episode 24

Jul 8, 2025

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1 min read

How I Ally Episode 24

If I Want My Child to Talk, I Need to Give Him Something to Talk About

Building Safe, Emotionally Fluent Relationships — with Rich Heller

May 23, 2025

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8 min read

Building Safe, Emotionally Fluent Relationships — with Rich Heller

What Happens When We Bring Compassion and Conflict Resolution into Parenting Partnerships

This changed how I think about mental health 🧠

May 14, 2025

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4 min read

This changed how I think about mental health 🧠

Mental Health Awareness Month is a time for more than just awareness—it’s a call to action.

Living a Life by Design

May 3, 2025

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4 min read

Living a Life by Design

How Dr. LaNail R. Plummer Is Using Intentionality, Identity, and Inner Revolution to Change the World

Emotional Clutter and the Quiet Strength of Patience

May 1, 2025

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3 min read

Emotional Clutter and the Quiet Strength of Patience

The video captures something many people never say out loud: how exhausting it is to feel everything.

The Invisible Load: Navigating the Mental Weight of Motherhood

Apr 25, 2025

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4 min read

The Invisible Load: Navigating the Mental Weight of Motherhood

Happy Mother's Day.

Can Your Disability Become Your Superpower?

Apr 21, 2025

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3 min read

Can Your Disability Become Your Superpower?

How one man’s journey through epilepsy helped him find purpose, connection—and the power of radical honesty.

April is My Amaranthine Arcadia

Apr 6, 2025

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8 min read

April is My Amaranthine Arcadia

A sacred garden of memory -- ever-blooming.

Unstoppable

Mar 12, 2025

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5 min read

Unstoppable

A new interview series and Women's History Month

A Sports Producer and an Engineer Walk Into a Bar. They're both moms.

Mar 1, 2025

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5 min read

A Sports Producer and an Engineer Walk Into a Bar. They're both moms.

Two new episodes of How I Ally happened this week.

My Identity has Expanded, not Contracted

Feb 21, 2025

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3 min read

My Identity has Expanded, not Contracted

Neurologically and circumstantially.

From Trauma to Mama: An Origin Story

Feb 21, 2025

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13 min read

From Trauma to Mama: An Origin Story

Lucinda Koza on her own traumatic childbirth experience and a manifesto on maternal mental health and the right to enthusiastic consent in the postpartum journey.

Hacking Humanity

Feb 17, 2025

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3 min read

Hacking Humanity

Elevating the Voices of Others

Feb 10, 2025

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4 min read

Elevating the Voices of Others

Seeking to understand my own story, I lean in to curiosity.

Dementia Caregiver Resources for At-Home Caregivers

Mar 2, 2023

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7 min read

Dementia Caregiver Resources for At-Home Caregivers

Cancer Caregiver Resources for At-Home Caregivers

Feb 28, 2023

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7 min read

Cancer Caregiver Resources for At-Home Caregivers

Best Caregiver Websites and Resources

Jan 5, 2023

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8 min read

Best Caregiver Websites and Resources

An ever-changing & growing list

How I Ally

This is not just a publication about parenting or caregiving. As it turns out, this is a publication about transformation. This is a publication about amplifying each other's stories, as if reaching out directly to ask, how can I be your ally?

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