Hampton Roads Poor People’s Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival
Since 2018, I have been involved with the Hampton Roads Poor People’s Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival. In 1968, The Rev. Dr. MLK started the Poor People’s Campaign but the effort laid dormant for 50 years until the Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz TheoHaris...
I love being a Career Coach
Today, I received a text from a former client who I first worked with in 2004. Since those coaching sessions, she has graduated from a selective women’s college, received her Master’s degree from a research university. When I asked her what was going on now, she said...
Katrina Project
After Hurricane Katrina, like so many people I could not believe what I was watching on TV and because I grew up spending vacations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I wondered what type of damage the disaster left on the Gulf of Mexico. That was in 2005 and when and why...
Wellesley Magazine interview: “Weathering the Storm”
As hurricanes and wildfires ravaged the U.S. in 2017—the costliest year on record for natural disasters—Ophera Davis, lecturer in Africana Studies, sat glued to her TV screen. She watched women in Texas flee their flooded homes in boats, and evacuees in California...
