Healing Through Storytelling

This is a free event and open to all. If you would like to support our work, optional donations can be made via Venmo or Cash App

About the "Learn. Connect. Build Community" Series
This series is designed to create an ongoing space where research and community knowledge meet—centering Black voices, lived experiences, and pathways toward healing, resilience, and collective care. Across events, our goal is to make research more accessible, foster dialogue, and build meaningful connections between researchers and the communities we serve.

About the Black Adult Resilience Study
The Black Adult Resilience Study is a multisite research study based in Seattle–Tacoma, WA, and Dallas–Fort Worth, TX, focused on understanding Black mental health. The study examines how personally and culturally relevant stressors interact with culturally grounded strengths, coping strategies, and sources of support. By highlighting not only risk factors but also resilience and protective processes, the study aims to inform more responsive, culturally grounded approaches to mental health research, practice, and policy.

About the Event
Healing Through Storytelling explores how personal and collective narratives can support healing, reflection, and connection. Together, we will consider how storytelling fosters empathy, perspective-taking, and care across communities.

The discussion will be led by Ajimah Olaghere is a Sr UX Researcher at Amazon and a former Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University. Her work outside of work focuses on data sovereignty and experience design for digital alchemy, the curation of design experiences that centers empathy and perspective-taking to foster healing and care in online spaces. She is currently building a digital library of her father's Pan African scholarship and works.

This is a free event and open to all. If you would like to support our work, optional donations can be made via Venmo or Cash App. Contributions directly support the sustainability of our community- and culture-centered research. Specifically, they help fund community engagement efforts such as future public events, partnerships with local organizations, and the creation of accessible research materials. Funds also support fair compensation for research participants, whose time, knowledge, and lived experiences are essential to advancing this work. By contributing, attendees help build a more equitable and community-centered model of research.
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