Precious Brady-Davis is an award-winning diversity advocate, communications professional, and public speaker. She currently serves as the associate regional communications director at the Sierra Club. She served for three years as the assistant director of diversity recruitment initiatives at Columbia College Chicago, her alma mater, implementing the campus-wide diversity initiative and providing leadership and oversight of national diversity recruitment and inclusion policy initiatives. 

In this episode we talk about: 

• being a gender non-conforming child growing up in Omaha Nebraska

• being a lonely child who always had an exuberant spirit

• making peace with her birth mother and seeing that people can’t give you what they don’t have

• as a teenager being immersed in church at the same time of trying to figure out sexuality 

• the value of just being able to be with people and be yourself 

• how what we all really want is to belong

• really wanting  I want people to respect my the validity of her life and womanhood

• finding herself in theater in high school and how that led to attending University of Omaha and the ways that it transformed her life.

•  where the name Precious came from

• the 16 year old who unknowingly changed her life.  

• how her memoir shares the series of divine moments in her life. 
• the divinity within each of us

 Find more at www.preciousbradydavis.com

And get her book I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ME. 

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