Reverend Tawana Angela Davis ’21 (GSLC, PhD) shares her eight-year journey battling metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer in the podcast series entitled No Longer Silent: Patient Access Stories, which amplifies the voices of real patients navigating the murky waters of the American healthcare system. Throughout her journey, she emphasized the importance of community support, self-advocacy, and maintaining faith. She also highlighted the systemic challenges Black women face in healthcare and urged politicians to prioritize equitable access to care. Davis is a Womanist, thought provoker, preacher, community leader, domestic violence survivor, and awareness advocate.
Davis is the curator for Dr. TAD Enterprises, a racial justice organization that employs Womanism as its guiding philosophy and approach. The organization focuses on combating anti-Black racism, addressing breast cancer disparities affecting Black women, and advocating against domestic violence, with an emphasis on centering Black women’s experiences.
As a Womanist and community leader, she co-founded Soul 2 Soul Sisters, which facilitates anti-racism work through the program Facing Racism. She contributed to the textbook Race Work and Leadership and serves as Secretary of the Institute for Racial Equity and Excellence (IREE). Davis also hosts the podcast #tuesdayswithtawana and moderates the award-winning series Healing the Healers II on Domestic Violence Awareness.
Read her full dissertation, Womanists Leading White People in Intergroup Dialogue to End Anti-Black Racism: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.
