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Creating the Movement
Learn more about SisterLove’s visionary leader behind the reproductive justice movement.
SisterLove is the first women’s HIV, Sexual and Reproductive Justice organization in the southeastern United States
Dázon wanted to create an inclusive space where Black women and other marginalized communities could come together, receive education, and find the support resources they need to protect their sexual and reproductive health.
As the first women’s HIV, Sexual and Reproductive Justice organization in the southeastern United States, Dázon and SisterLove has been at the forefront of HIV advocacy, education, and community-based public health for over 35 years.
Listen Up
Watch Dázon's new podcast series, Visible & Unseen - HIV in Black Life Then, Now, and Next, interviewing the modern-day heroes in the fight against HIV and its impacts in the Black community
Listen Up
Listen to Dázon's weekly podcast series, Sister's Time/Women's Speak, where she holds powerful discussions about reproductive justice, current events relating to sexual and reproductive health, and interviews power players in the reproductive justice community.
Leadership in Action
In her commitment to an intersectional approach to her sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ) work, Dázon is active in many and public health and social justice committees and initiatives across a broad spectrum.
She currently serves on the Women-At-Risk Subcommittee and the Scientific Advisory Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network, the UNFPA Global Advisory Council, the Women’s Research Initiative (WRI), as co-chair for the Act Now: End AIDS National Coalition and is a founding member of SisterSong Reproductive Justice Collective.
Until recently, she served as a member of the AIDS Research Advisory Council and on the board of directors of the National Women’s Health Network.
She is the creator and convener of the Prevention Options for Women at Risk-POWaR–Partnership (formerly US Women & PrEP Working Group) and WomenNOW! PowerShift for SRHRJ for Girls & Women of African Descent worldwide.
In addition to her Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (C’97) and a Bachelor’s Degree from Spelman College (C’86) in Atlanta, Dázon had the distinct honor to receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from her alma mater, Spelman College.
