Saharra Dixon

Saharra Dixon is a Black, queer Health Education Specialist (NCHES), digital and performance-based storyteller,  health equity researcher, and nonprofit leader dedicated to decolonizing public health. With a passion for mental health, chronic illness, and reproductive justice in minoritized communities, she weaves creativity and narrative into her work—unearthing the fundamental causes of health inequity and imagining 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 methods to explore grief, identity, and liberation.

Through her work, Saharra challenges the exclusion of minoritized voices in public mental health, dismantling what Safiya Noble calls “algorithms of oppression.” This space—her writing, research, storytelling, and coaching—exists to ignite courage, amplify collective healing, and carve out representation where it has long been denied.