Chauncey was raised in Ohio, earned her bachelor's in Georgia, and launched her career as a Mississippi Delta Corps Member of Teach for America. She comes from a family that prioritizes education. Her grandfather is a doctor and her grandmother has a masters in social work, achieving that success when it was much harder for Black people to even go to college.
Although she faced high expectations and reached them, she knew there was more to her than degrees and titles.
She followed that intuition to Ghana, where she started to prioritize herself for the first time and continued applying lessons she learned from therapy, including inner child work.
Identities: Black-American, Black woman, woman of color, daughter
Profession: higher education, education policy
Themes: inner child work, self-care, travel
Chauncey was raised in Ohio, earned her bachelor's in Georgia, and launched her career as a Mississippi Delta Corps Member of Teach for America. She comes from a family that prioritizes education. Her grandfather is a doctor and her grandmother has a masters in social work, achieving that success when it was much harder for Black people to even go to college.
Although she faced high expectations and reached them, she knew there was more to her than degrees and titles.
She followed that intuition to Ghana, where she started to prioritize herself for the first time and continued applying lessons she learned from therapy, including inner child work.
Identities: Black-American, Black woman, woman of color, daughter
Profession: higher education, education policy
Themes: inner child work, self-care, travel