Previously they were the managing editor of the Black Youth Project and a script consultant on the television series David Makes Man. They are a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow, and their writing has been featured in BuzzFeed, Out, the Guardian, Paste magazine, and the academic journal Critical Ethnic Studies, among other publications. Hari Ziyad is a cultural critic, a screenwriter, and the editor-in-chief of RaceBaitr. They talk about family, mental health, gender, growing up Black and queer, abolition, ancestral grief and wisdom, and healing. For more information visit Support the show ()Īlex Iantaffi interviews author, artist, screenwriter and speaker Hari Ziyad about their new book Black Boy Out of Time.
In her free time, she enjoys online shoe shopping, travel, and fine dining with friends. Precious is married to Myles Brady and lives in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago, where they are raising their daughter, Zayn. During Precious’s tenure, she launched a $1.6 million CDC HIV prevention grant, which provided outreach, education, youth programming, and testing services to over three thousand young African American and Latinx gay, bi, and trans youth. She also served as the youth outreach coordinator at Center on Halsted, the largest LGBTQ community center in the Midwest. 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. She currently serves as the associate regional communications director at the Sierra Club. Precious Brady-Davis is an award-winning diversity advocate, communications professional, and public speaker. Alex Iantaffi interviews Precious Brady-Davis to discuss her book "I have always been me: a memoir" and the themes of family, life transitions, healing, faith, and belonging.