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Rachel “Ray” McLean, MPH, Principal of Cardoray Consulting, is a public health professional and policy strategist who has spent her career helping organizations move from complexity to clarity. Her work has centered on health policy, implementation, communication, and collaboration across state, local, and community settings, but she also brings to the table 15+ years of practicing and leading mindfulness meditation groups as well as her perspective as a collage artist, sorting through disparate images to tell a clear story.

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Clients and colleagues have described Ray as thoughtful, brave, direct, and skilled at making difficult policy understandable. That reputation comes from years of translating legislative and regulatory issues into practical guidance, helping teams think strategically, and keeping equity and lived experience at the center of the work.

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Cardoray Consulting brings both strategic perspective and operational follow-through. Ray has led policy analysis, supervised teams, coordinated external partners, and developed tools such as fact sheets, issue briefs, policy letters, billing guides, newsletters, and public-facing web content.

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Her consulting work is grounded in the belief that policy should be understandable, implementation should be realistic, and programs should serve the people most affected by the problems they are trying to solve.