Equity Before Birth was founded by Emmy and James Eide in Durham, North Carolina, in August 2020, with Joy Spencer joining as our first Executive Director that fall.

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EBB began with a simple but powerful question:

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👉 What could change if we created equitable opportunities for families before a baby is even born?

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We started with the families most impacted by inequitable birth outcomes: Black birthing people and their infants.

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The vision was bigger than any one program. We imagined a community that surrounds families with care, resources and love as they enter parenthood. A community that values birth workers and pays them a living wage. A community that connects people already doing this work with the families who need them most.

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That vision became Equity Before Birth.