Reverend Dr. Davis
Womanist, thought provoker, speaker, preacher, and community leader.
Reverend Tawana Angela Davis, Ph.D. ~ known to the world as Dr. TAD ~ is a nationally recognized Womanist scholar-practitioner, justice theologian, and visionary strategist born and raised in Harlem, New York. With more than 30 years of progressive leadership across nonprofit, faith-based, corporate, and academic sectors, she is one of the most trusted voices in the country on equity-centered leadership, organizational transformation, and systems change.
Dr. Davis is the Founder and CEO of Dr. TAD Enterprises, a boutique consulting firm advancing equity-centered leadership development, organizational transformation, and systems change across nonprofit, faith-based, and corporate institutions. She is also the Co-Founder and COO of Noble Care, an innovative platform driving breast health equity, survivorship advocacy, ethical research, and community-centered storytelling.
A sought-after keynote speaker, preacher, and educator, Dr. TAD has commanded national and international stages, advancing urgent conversations on racial equity, healing justice, leadership, and organizational transformation. She is the author of You Are Not Your Diagnosis: A Reflective Journey of Healing, a contributing author to Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience (Harvard Business Review Press) and Explore: Vocational Discovery in Ministry, and co-curator of the Telly Award–winning Healing the Healers II series on Domestic Violence Awareness.
Dr. Davis currently serves as a guest Professor at Turner Theological Seminary, where she designed and launched the groundbreaking 32-Week Certificate in Womanism and Justice. She holds appointments on several national boards and advisory councils, including the American Cancer Society’s National Breast Cancer Roundtable Steering Committee, the Bexa Equity Alliance, and Johns Hopkins’ INSPIRE Program.
Her academic credentials include a Ph.D. and M.A. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University, a Master of Divinity from Turner Theological Seminary, a B.S. in Human Resources Management from SUNY Empire State College, and professional certifications from Cornell University and New York University.
A metastatic breast cancer thriver and certified domestic violence advocate and survivor, Dr. TAD brings the fullness of who she is to every room she enters ~ honoring both her lived experience and scholarly depth to create spaces that are healing, inclusive, and rooted in justice.
Above all, Reverend Tawana Angela Davis, Ph.D. is a proud mother of two master-level educators, a devoted grandmother, and a lifelong justice activist ~ committed to building a world where every beloved soul has the opportunity not only to survive, but to thrive.
