EP #55: My Journey As a Trans Woman with Precious Brady Davis: Trauma, Healing, Self-Love & Pride.

Lisa is solo today with the incredible Precious Brady Davis.
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. She also served as
the youth outreach coordinator at the Center on Halsted, the
largest LGBTQ community center in the Midwest. 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. Precious is married to Myles
Brady and lives in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago, where
they are raising their daughter, Zayn. In her free time, she
enjoys online shoe shopping, travel, and fine dining with
friends. For more information visit
www.preciousbradydavis.com.

Precious talks about her book, I Have Always Been Me: A
Memoir. 

Here is the book description:

Precious Brady-Davis remembers the sense of being singular and
grappling with “otherness.” Born into traumatic circumstances,
Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster care system and the
Pentecostal faith. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she
felt displaced. Yet she realized by coming into her identity that
she had a purpose all along.


In I Have Always Been Me, Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of
neglect, instability, and abandonment. She reveals her
determination to dream through it and shares her profound journey
as a trans woman now fully actualized, absolutely confident, and
precious. She speaks to anyone who has ever tried to find their
place in this world and imparts the wisdom that comes with
surmounting odds and celebrating on the other side.


A memoir, a love story, and an outreach for the marginalized,
Precious’s sojourn is a song of self-reliance and pride and an
invitation to join in the chorus.