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Rachel Cope

Rachel Cope received a BA and MA in history from Brigham Young University and a PhD in American history, with an emphasis in women’s history and religious history, from Syracuse University. Rachel is a scholar of women’s spirituality and conversion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and works as an associate professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU. Rachel is deeply committed to raising awareness of and funding for obstetric fistula victims throughout the global south.

March 10, 2025 12:14 PM MDT
To Rachel’s horror, she’d joined the ranks of women who suffer from a condition that’s been described as the leprosy of the twenty-first century.
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