Our Doctoral Journey Book Author Chat (with Tabitha Esther and Dominique Garrett-Scott)

Today, I am joined by two co-authors of our book, Our Doctoral Journey: A Collection of Black Women's Experiences to discuss the process of writing the book and what we hope readers gain from our stories.

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About My Special Guests

Tabitha Esther also known as The #BodyConfident Coach is a 5th year doctoral student at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her career in public health over the last 10 years has focused on the spatial and social epidemiology. Her doctoral journey has led her on a personal journey to uncovering, Who is Tabitha without science? As a woman who has healed through body dysmorphic disorder for 20+ years, currently she is focused on her passion as a coach where she helps women who are unsatisfied with their bodies develop unshakeable body confidence thorough a personalized body science approach based on their blood type & through body image healing. Her goal is to create a nation of women who have unshakeable body confidence as their life motto. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Visit her website - TabithaEsther.com. She can also be reached through email at tabitha@tabithaesther.com.

Dom, short for Dominique, Garrett-Scott (pronouns: she/her/hers) is a radically soft Black feminist poet-scholar, plus-size model, entrepreneur, content creator, and self-proclaimed hot girl hailing from Dallas, Texas. She holds a B.A. in Sociology with a concentration in African American Studies from the University of Mississippi and a M.A. in Sociology with concentrations in Black Studies and Gender and Women Studies from the University of Texas. A former student, community, and labor organizer, Dom is currently a Ph.D. student studying the relationship between anti-Black misogyny, fatphobia, and surveillance. You can follow her on her socials @domthefurious.