Saharra Dixon
I’m Saharra Dixon, a public health storyteller, mental health researcher, Black feminist scholar, and creative strategist who believes research can lead to radical care and healthful futures.
When I entered the public mental health space, research or interventions that reflected and honored the lived experience of Black and brown women and girls were not visible. Our stories were often missing, misused, and mishandled. So, I started doing it differently. Research that centers joy. Interventions that honor our ancestral and spiritual ways of being.
My work uplifts embodied narratives as critical ways of making and knowing knowledge in order to curate transformative research, pedagogy, and practice that is healing, relational, and liberatory for Black, Indigenous, and Women and girls of color. I do this by blending Critical Narrative Intervention and Endarkened Narrative Inquiry with traditional psychosocial frameworks, Afrofuturism, and embodiment. Whether you’re looking for creative ways to engage your audiences, want to empower your research participants through bold methodologies, or looking to develop meaningful workshops and educational tools with a real world impact, I can help you reach those
goals with thoughtfulness, integrity, and care.
I am a PhD Candidate in Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I received my MA in Educational Theatre from NYU and my BS in Health Behavior Science from the University of Delaware.