by Deonna Anderson
In 2013 Rev. Stacey Edwards-Dunn, health educator and executive minister of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, founded Fertility for Colored Girls (FFCG), with her husband Earl Dunn, Sr. FFCG is a nonprofit organization whose mission is “to provide education, awareness, support and encouragement to African American women/couples and other women of color experiencing infertility and seeking to build the families of their dreams.” After experiencing failed in vitro fertilization (IVF) seven times and a miscarriage within seven years before their daughter in 2014, the couple was inspired to change the culture of silence surrounding infertility, particularly in the Black community, and the concept of FFCG was born.