Alcea is a surrogacy agency that is decidedly different—founded with a mission to create equal opportunities for everyone pursuing parenthood through surrogacy. Based in New York, Alcea was built by a team who have personally experienced the surrogacy journey and deeply understand the evolving and diverse community of intended parents.
What matters to you matters to us.
Your path to becoming a family is unique, and the Alcea Team is committed to supporting your needs every step of the way.
Why Intended Parents Choose Alcea:
No upfront exclusivity agreement – freedom to move forward when you’re ready.
Agency fee paid in stages aligned with major milestones:
Upon execution of the surrogate selection contract
Upon execu...
What matters to you matters to us.
Your path to becoming a family is unique, and the Alcea Team is committed to supporting your needs every step of the way.
Why Intended Parents Choose Alcea:
No upfront exclusivity agreement – freedom to move forward when you’re ready.
Agency fee paid in stages aligned with major milestones:
Upon execution of the surrogate selection contract
Upon execution of the surrogacy contract
At confirmed heartbeat
At gestational week 24
Upon completion of PBO (Pre-Birth Order)
Meticulously pre-screened surrogates to ensure safety, readiness, and compatibility.
In-house psychological support for both the carrier and intended parent(s).
Curated monthly “Bump Boxes” sent to the carrier from the agency.
Third-trimester housekeeping and postpartum support included in the agency fee.
LGBTQIA+ inclusive – all families welcome.
Case Management
Counselling & Support
Escrow Management
I could talk about my experience with Alcea all day! Finding the right agency can feel daunting and exhausting, I can't fully relay how happy I am to be with Alcea as a GC. I LOVE that after lots of heartbreak, searching, and vetting other agencies, my Intended Parents feel they made the best decision by choosing Alcea! They've shared many time that they're treated with such a high level of respect and support, it is definitely not one sided, the support is incredible for all involved. I can't wait for our journey to come full circle with Alcea!
Alcea Surrogacy is an amazing, compassionate, knowledgeable, inclusive, progressive annd incredibly attentive agency. They take great care of their intended parents and gestational carriers. I have been in the surrogacy industry since 2011 and I am an experienced Gestational Carrier (x2).
Between the personal experience of closed adoption and the years of the infertility roller coaster that followed, a calling to third party reproduction seemed inevitable for Alcea Co-Founder and Executive Director Angela Richardson-Mook. With a successful corporate project management background, fifteen+ years of third-party reproduction expertise, and professional connections to alternative family building nationwide, she has brought her dream of a female-owned, full-service, holistic surrogacy agency to life. As an adopted woman, a gestational carrier, an egg donor, and a mother via IVF, she has a unique outlook on the mechanics of what truly composes a family. By leveraging her knowledge as a corporate executive and as an active member of the surrogacy community, she built unique bonds with a community of people all experiencing different nuances of infertility, yet with all the same dissatisfaction with the status quo. Personal relationships with intended mothers and fathers, surrogates, donors, and agency employees, evolved into the collective creation of a decidedly different surrogacy agency strategy.
As a queer mother of three, who has helped to grow two separate families as a surrogate, Christy understands the complex and unique needs of third-party reproduction. She brings more than 15 years of personal experience in the community, including the expansion of her own family via reciprocal IVF, carrying her Partner’s biological embryo. The desire to serve others is what ultimately called her to surrogacy. and this is when she first met Angela in 2005. After years of working in financial operations management and executive corporate travel, she was delighted to embark on advocacy work that would best utilize her collective career accomplishments and personal experiences. Surrogacy and third-party reproduction have shaped her life’s work and is where her heart truly resides. In addition to professional practices, staying active and healthy are important parts of her daily life. Besides a small obsession with podcasts and anything true-crime; some of Christy's passions include exploring outdoors with family, hiking, kayaking, and practicing yoga.
Rose Cullen is an editor and artist currently based in New York. As the child of a surrogate, Rose grew up fascinated with the third party reproductive world. They hope to help bring the teams vision to life using robust videography. Currently they are studying Japanese and working to become certified in the Adobe Suite and Davinci Resolve programs.
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