The ZAMI NOBLA Podcast

Angela Denise Davis
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The ZAMI NOBLA Podcast is a sound source for Black Lesbians 40 and older. Our show topics include current events, LGBT affairs, Black Lesbian Herstory & Health and Wellness. Angela Denise Davis is the show's Creator, Producer, and Host.

  1. Frances Wood Tells All and Still Has Her Joy

    May 27

    Frances Wood Tells All and Still Has Her Joy

    Frances E. Wood is a scholar and educator; her work reflects a profound commitment to justice and the transformative power of ideas. A feminist and womanist thinker with both depth and breadth of knowledge, she brings together intellectual rigor, lived experience, and spiritual insight in ways that shape institutions, communities, and individual lives. Frances has taught at the University of Washington, Agnes Scott College, Spelman College, and Emory University, where she has inspired students through her dynamic engagement with theology, ethics, gender, and social justice. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Religion and an M.A. in International Studies. She has been an active participant in the American Academy of Religion's Womanist Consultation and was a fellow of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life (now known as the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life).  She is the author of "Take My Yoke Upon You: The Role of the Church in the Oppression of Black Women", in the collection A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil & Suffering, edited by Emilie M. Towns; a work that reflects her sustained interrogation of faith, power, and the lived experiences of Black women. Her scholarly work has engaged the thought of Audre Lorde and includes contributions on Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in the Encyclopedia of Religion. Her professional experience spans higher education, nonprofit leadership, and public service, including roles as the first Minority Concerns Director of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle and Program Director for the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, collaborating with such organizations as Men Stopping Violence, the National Council of Churches Commission on Families, and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In addition, she has held managerial positions with the Social Security Administration and the Georgia State University. Across these roles, she has developed personnel policies, implemented institutional procedures, and led initiatives that respond to both individual and systemic concerns. Her work reflects a deep commitment to prevention, accountability, and healing within both secular and faith-based communities.

    1h 20m
  2. Jennifer Horn Brings Her Chair to the ZAMI NOBLA Leadership Table

    Apr 22

    Jennifer Horn Brings Her Chair to the ZAMI NOBLA Leadership Table

    Jennifer M-F Horn, LCSW, NMCFIT, is a licensed clinical social worker, researcher, educator, and U.S. Navy veteran whose scholarship and practice center Black same-gender-loving women and historically marginalized communities across aging, caregiving, and long-term services and supports.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Colorado State University–Pueblo, graduating Magna Cum Laude and inducted into Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, and her Master of Social Work from Newman University, where she was inducted into the Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences.  Jennifer is currently a Doctor of Social Work (DSW) candidate at Tulane University School of Social Work, with a projected graduation of May 2027.  Her doctoral scholarship critically examines institutional responsibility and interrogates how resilience narratives can obscure structural harm — with particular attention to the communities ZAMI NOBLA serves. Jennifer has spent nearly two decades conducting community-rooted research on the lived experiences of older LGBTQIA2S+ adults, with the last six years heavily focused on older Black same-gender-loving women, with published co-authorships in The Gerontologist, LGBT Health, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. Professionally, she serves as a Care Planner at the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments Area Agency on Aging: Family Caregiver Support Center and provides pro-bono mental health services to limited-income residents through Spark by Project Helping.  She is the founder of Let's Talk About It! An Educational Journey Series, LLC, an equity-centered educational platform addressing generational trauma, intersectionality, and racial justice.  Jennifer serves as Co-Chair of the American Society on Aging's Equity & Justice Advisory Council and was honored with the 2022 DEI Champions of Advocacy Award for the Pikes Peak Region.  As Board Chair of ZAMI NOBLA, she is committed to ensuring that the stories, wisdom, and dignity of older Black same-gender-loving women are centered in research, in policy, and in community.

    1h 6m
  3. Carla Rabb DeRosa Plays with Her Food and We All are Better for It

    11/23/2025

    Carla Rabb DeRosa Plays with Her Food and We All are Better for It

    You may register for ZAMI NOBLA's Plant Play Food Series at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SFkOB_AvSaixs6Yr2QkrDg PLANT PLAY, a virtual feast with Carla Rabb DeRosa Turn your Kitchen into a Wellness Playground! ZAMI NOBLA invites you to join PLANT PLAY, a joyful, monthly virtual feast with Carla Rabb DeRosa—recipe book author, plant-based educator, and founder of The Raw Kitchen. Learn to create delicious plant-based recipes such as: Sweet Potato Sausage Raw Carrot Cake Collard Wraps Four Saturdays, 11 AM – 12:30 PM (EST)  December 6, 2025 January 17, 2026 February 7, 2026 March 7, 2026   Free & Open to All! Let's nourish our bodies, feed our spirits, and celebrate wellness through food, creativity, and community.   Carla Rabb DeRosa is a Certified Food Medicine Educator and Raw Foods Instructor with extraordinary skills in providing comprehensive training in alternative healing modalities to facilitate natural healing and wellness. She began her career in plant-food medicine in response to her own health crisis in 2010. After cleansing her body, Carla lost 60 lbs. of waste and toxins and regained vitality and wellbeing with the strategic use of healing foods and plant medicine. She supported the reversal of chronic metabolic diseases in herself and many others.   Carla has a true passion for supporting people to heal. She has introduced thousands to natural healing practices through her speaking, cleansing and retreat events and products. She uses whole and raw food, herbs, oils, teas and body practices to elevate health seekers and their families from all over the world.   You may inquire about direct coaching and speaking engagements to 770.413.9046 or crabb25@gmail.com.

    1h 29m
  4. Cara Page Revels in Movement Work as a Cartographer of Culture, Memory, Healing, and Justice

    07/11/2025

    Cara Page Revels in Movement Work as a Cartographer of Culture, Memory, Healing, and Justice

    This interview was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 18, 2025. Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist cultural memory worker & organizer. For the past 30+ years, she has organized with LGBTQI+, Black, Indigenous & People of Color liberation movements in the US & Global South at the intersections of racial, gender & economic justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is founder of Changing Frequencies, an abolitionist organizing project that designs cultural memory work to disrupt harms and violence from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). She is also co-founder of the Healing Histories Project; a network of abolitionist healers/health practitioners, community organizers, researchers/historians & cultural workers building solidarity to interrupt the medical industrial complex and harmful systems of care. We generate change through research, action and building collaborative strategies & stories with BIPOC-led communities, institutions and movements organizing for dignified collective care.   As one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions, she is co-founder and core leadership team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She was the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in New York City and is a former recipient of the OSF Soros Equality Fellowship (2019-2020) and 'Activist in Residence' at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She was also chosen as Yerba Buena Cultural Center's 'YBCA100'in 2020.   Visit her online at: https://carapage.co/

    1h 15m
  5. Deneen Day Gives an Oral Herstory of Life in Ohio and Work as an Investigator (Part 1)

    06/27/2025

    Deneen Day Gives an Oral Herstory of Life in Ohio and Work as an Investigator (Part 1)

    This interview was recorded on May 20, 2025 via online video conferencing.   Part 1 is an oral herstory of Deneen's life in Ohio and part 2 is a detailed look at her family's journey with dementia along with Deneen's work in the area.   Deneen Day retired after a distinguished 30-year career as a Financial Crimes Investigator for the State of Ohio. Her journey as a dementia caregiver began in the 1990s when she became a long-distance caregiver for her grandmother, taking on the roles of guardian and decision-maker.   In 2007, Deneen's mother began to show signs of dementia, marking the start of her second "tour of duty" as a caregiver. Balancing full-time work, caring for her adopted special needs son, and her mother, Deeneen became a "sandwich generation caregiver."   Deeneen's son was just five years old when his grandmother began to show signs of the disease, and he continued to be a young caregiver until her passing when he was 17. To support her son through this journey, Deeneen became an advocate for understanding the impact of dementia and caregiving on children, emphasizing the importance of awareness among teachers, coaches, peers, and their parents.   Her presentation is on YouTube at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY53q_onjHc

    45 min
  6. Deneen Day Remembers her Mother, Grandmother, and the Journey of Dementia (Part 2)

    06/27/2025

    Deneen Day Remembers her Mother, Grandmother, and the Journey of Dementia (Part 2)

    This interview was recorded on May 20, 2025 via online video conferencing.   Part 1 is an oral herstory of Deneen's life in Ohio and part 2 is a detailed look at her family's journey with dementia along with Deneen's work in the area.   Deneen Day retired after a distinguished 30-year career as a Financial Crimes Investigator for the State of Ohio. Her journey as a dementia caregiver began in the 1990s when she became a long-distance caregiver for her grandmother, taking on the roles of guardian and decision-maker.   In 2007, Deneen's mother began to show signs of dementia, marking the start of her second "tour of duty" as a caregiver. Balancing full-time work, caring for her adopted special needs son, and her mother, Deeneen became a "sandwich generation caregiver."   Deeneen's son was just five years old when his grandmother began to show signs of the disease, and he continued to be a young caregiver until her passing when he was 17. To support her son through this journey, Deeneen became an advocate for understanding the impact of dementia and caregiving on children, emphasizing the importance of awareness among teachers, coaches, peers, and their parents.   Her presentation is on YouTube at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY53q_onjHc

    47 min
  7. Arlene Edwards Reflects on a Life of Watching the World Through the Lens of Community Psychology

    06/14/2025

    Arlene Edwards Reflects on a Life of Watching the World Through the Lens of Community Psychology

    Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Arlene is a community psychologist who recently retired from the CDC.  While there she worked as a behavioral scientist focusing on capacity building as it relates to HIV prevention.  She received her BA in Psychology from the University of Tampa, MA in Counseling and Human Development from Clark Atlanta University and PhD in Community Psychology from Georgia State University.  After beginning her public health work, she realized a need to augment her education and completed an MPH from Emory University.  Arlene is also a veteran and retired from the US Army Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.  As a Black lesbian her work and adult life has included finding ways to show up in an authentic manner and make space for others to do the same.  Currently she works as a consultant on an HIV prevention project focused on encouraging Black women to view PrEP usage as an act of self-care, she is also growing a garden and a forest.

    1h 32m
  8. Kaila Story Knows Her Place and Creates Space at the Fenceline of Difference

    06/05/2025

    Kaila Story Knows Her Place and Creates Space at the Fenceline of Difference

    Kaila Adia Story, PhD is an associate professor in the Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Pan-African Studies, as well as the Audre Lorde Endowed Chair at the University of Louisville. She is the author of The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf: On The Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity, which comes out this May. She is also the co-creator, co-producer, and cohost of Louisville Public Media's Strange Fruit: Musings on Politics, Pop Culture, and Black Gay Life, a popular award-winning podcast. Her research examines the intersections of race and sexuality, with special attention to Black feminism, Black lesbians, and Black queer identity.  IG: @doctressstory Facebook: Kaila Adia Story Threads: @doctressstory BlueSky: @doctressstory.bsky.social Website: www.doctressstory.com

    58 min
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The ZAMI NOBLA Podcast is a sound source for Black Lesbians 40 and older. Our show topics include current events, LGBT affairs, Black Lesbian Herstory & Health and Wellness. Angela Denise Davis is the show's Creator, Producer, and Host.

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