Saharra Dixon

Biography

Saharra Dixon is a Black and queer digital and performance storyteller from the greater Philadelphia area. She uses art and storytelling to identify and address fundamental causes of health inequity. Her artistry explores grief and wake work that allows us to reimagine Blackness and Indigeneity as life and living memory. She works with children & adults alike in using art as a tool for reflection, transformation, & radical healing. Her scholarship works to understand how systems and social environments (re)produce health inequities, particularly related to mental health issues and chronic disease. Saharra uses arts-based and participatory methods to promote more caring, collaborative, and community-accountable approaches to health promotion and research. Dixon also has experience working in adolescent sexual/reproductive health and reproductive justice. Saharra received her BS in Health Behavior Science from the University of Delaware and her MA in Educational Theatre from New York University. She is a Public Health PhD Candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Saharra is the Executive Director of Main IDEA based in Worcester, MA, serves on the Board of the Collective for Radical Death Studies, and is a a speaker and arts-facilitator.