Your Experience Matters.
Your Voice Moves Change.
Honoring experience. Advancing equity.
Generate Health has long mobilized the St. Louis region to advance racial equity in pregnancy, birth, and early childhood. For decades, the organization has partnered with Black families, community leaders, and health systems to confront persistent disparities—where Black birthing people remain three times more likely to experience severe complications and poor outcomes.
Rooted in community voice and collective action, Generate Health works to shift policies and transform systems so every family can thrive.
2BHeard strengthens this mission by elevating lived experiences as a catalyst for change—centering the wisdom and realities of Black women and birthing people in solutions meant to support them.
Rooted in Being Heard
Maternal health is in crisis across the U.S., and too many lives are lost to preventable pregnancy-related complications.
In Missouri alone, the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (PAMR) reports that nearly 70 people die each year within one year of giving birth—84% of them preventable.
2BHeard was created in response to this reality. Inspired by the CDC Foundation’s “Hear Her” campaign, this St. Louis-based movement amplifies the urgency of maternal health, equips families and providers with tools to recognize life-threatening warning signs, and creates space for individuals to speak up and be heard.
Together, we can work toward a future where every birthing person is listened to, valued, and supported.
Your Experience Matters.
Your Voice Moves Change.
2BHeard is creating a collective narrative shaped by Black women and birthing people in the St. Louis region. By sharing your lived experiences—in your own way, on your own terms—you help bring visibility to realities that too often go unheard.
Whether your experience reflects joy, challenge, resilience, loss, healing, or hope, your voice adds depth to a community story that can shift policies, strengthen programs, and inform solutions.
This is not research. This is not extraction.
This is about honoring what you’ve lived and using it to shape a healthier future for Black women, birthing people, and families. We invite you to share your experience—written or recorded—whenever you’re ready.
Ready to Submit Your Experience?
Share at your pace. Choose the format that feels right.
You can submit your experience by writing, uploading a video, or recording one directly from your device.
Prompts and guidance are provided, but every question is optional. You control how much you share.