Cheyenne and The Educated Birth team are honored to share her selection as a 2025 Richmond History Maker by The Valentine Museum and HYPE RVA Selection Team.

She was recognized in the Promoting Access to Healthy Communities category for her work advancing health equity and reproductive justice through The Educated Birth and Everyday Birth Magazine.

The following video was created by The Valentine Museum team:

The Richmond History Makers Awards were held on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at The Valentine Museum.

A message from Cheyenne:

To be named a 2025 Richmond History Maker for Promoting Access to Healthy Communities is humbling. And to receive that recognition on the eve of The Educated Birth’s 10th year feels… layered. Full circle. Still unfolding.

When I started this work, it was just me — illustrating labor positions at my kitchen table, hoping someone out there might find them helpful. Today, our incredible team is distributing thousands of educational tools across the U.S. and beyond. We’ve launched Everyday Birth Magazine, built a foundation to support access and opportunity, begun translating our materials into Spanish, and supported the creation of affirming visuals for Black, Brown, queer, disabled, and otherwise underrepresented birthing people.

We’re still small. Still growing. Still learning and stretching. But this award — and the community that stood with me that night — affirmed that what we’re doing matters.

To everyone who has shared our work, ordered a binder or card set, opened our emails, liked/hearted a post, joined a workshop, stocked our materials in your clinic, sponsored an issue, been a patron, supported our foundation or sent a word of encouragement: this is your win too.

Ten years next year. A decade of drawing, dreaming, and daring to believe that birth education can be beautiful and just for all.

Thank you, Richmond. Thank you to the Valentine Museum, Dominion Energy, all of the sponsors, to my friends, team, and family, and the incredible people who pour into this community daily.

We’ve only just begun.

With gratitude,
Cheyenne