• Porshé Garner
• Senior Administrator
• A Long Walk Home, Inc.

Porshé R. Garner is a Black girl spiritualist who, for the past 13 years, has organized alongside Black girls and women to create spaces of possibilities and freedom. She received her Ph.D. in educational policy studies with a graduate minor in gender and women’s studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, “Present-day prophets: Defining Black girlhood spirituality in Saving Our Lives Our Truths (SOLHOT)” and beyond, offered a definition of Black girlhood spirituality that demonstrated the necessity of studying spirituality as a site of inquiry into the knowledge production and experiences of Black girls in the community with Black women. Porshé argues that Black girlhood spirituality is Black girls’ way of knowing how to mobilize ideas to transform circumstances. This work earned the 2019 American Educational Research Association, Arts-Based Educational Research Outstanding Dissertation Award. Currently, she is the Senior Administrator at A Long Walk Home. Her art practices include writing, singing, and curating & creating musical experiences with her “band-baes” of We Levitate. Porshé also enjoys being in service of the mothers in her life by providing prenatal and postpartum doula care.