My research is centered on the power of voice, generativity (the passing down of wisdom) through storytelling, and the impacts of stories heard, told, and silenced on our identities, relationships, and health/well-being.  My dissertation research focused on Black intergenerational stories [told, heard, silenced] about love [romantic, community, and self-love] and the impacts of those stories throughout the life course.

Longer term, I wish to create sustainable community, human-centered projects, that creates physical spaces for story exchange and to collaboratively explore ways that these stories can bring about individual, relational, and social change.

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How Does My Research Translate to Non-Academic Spaces?

I believe that any team, institution or organization is made stronger when we prioritize policies, strategies and initiatives that focuses on the holistic individual. Each of us has a story and these stories impact how we show up as leaders, employees, students, parents, and patrons. By failing to hold space that centralizes voices and lived experiences, entities suffer. My work allows me to help teams, institutions, and organizations create space. Furthermore, obtaining a PhD has strengthened my resiliency and equips me with even greater transferable skills, such as applying various analytical tools to gather and interpret data, making decisions based on evidence, sharing data in a compelling, narrative-based way, and communicating complex concepts clearly. 

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Denson, S. (2021).  It doesn’t have to protest: A review of Black or right: Anti/racist campus rhetorics. Writers: Craft and Context (2) 2, 36-41.