ABOUT ME

Saharra Dixon is a Black, queer Health Education Specialist (CHES), digital and performance-based storyteller, health equity researcher, and nonprofit leader committed to decolonizing public health. With a focus on mental health, chronic illness, and reproductive justice in minoritized communities, she weaves creativity and narrative into every facet of her work—unearthing root causes of health inequity and imagining liberatory, healthful futures.

A PhD Candidate in Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Saharra also holds an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University and a BS in Health Behavior Science from the University of Delaware. She is trained in psychodrama, sociodrama, Theatre of the Oppressed, and death doula care, using these embodied and arts-based practices to explore grief, identity, and systemic liberation.

Through her research, coaching, and public scholarship, Saharra challenges the erasure of minoritized voices in mental health and wellness spaces, dismantling what Safiya Noble terms “algorithms of oppression.” Her work—and the space she cultivates—exists to ignite courage, amplify collective healing, and carve out representation where it has long been denied.