TRANSFORMING CONFLICT. REBUILDING CONNECTION. CREATING LASTING CHANGE.
I help individuals, leaders, organizations, & communities navigate conflict, transform difficult conversations, rebuild trust, and create healthier ways of working and living together.
DR. doris wesley
I am a Conflict Pracademic working at the intersection of scholarship and practice to understand conflict, transform difficult conversations, and help individuals, leaders, communities, and institutions build pathways toward meaningful and sustainable change.
As a Communication Professor and Social Impact Entrepreneur, I translate scholarship into practical frameworks, tools, and strategies that people can use. This same commitment to turning knowledge into meaningful social impact led me to found the GEM Daughters Network, which elevates, educates, and empowers daddyless women and girls around the world.
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Research-driven insights connecting knowledge to real-world challenges.
SPEAKING
Transformative keynote conversation that informs, challenges, & inspires.
CONSULTING
Evidence-informed strategies that turn conflict into possibilities.
TRAINING
Interactive workshops that equip people with practical tools.
NEW BOOK
COMING SOON
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
This forthcoming Handbook of Social Welfare in the Global South examines pressing social challenges and the policies, programs, and systems shaping welfare provision from a political, economic, and geographical lens across diverse communities in the region.
Watch out for its release soon and explore my chapter on decolonizing digital access for Boko Haram-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs). Moving beyond simply providing technology, I argue for a shift from digital access to digital agency that empowers displaced communities to participate, create, and shape their digital spaces while advancing dignity, self-reliance, and community resilience.
NEW BOOK
Research Handbook on Public Communication
This forward-thinking handbook advances research and practice in public communication, bridging theory, methodology, and application. Its interdisciplinary approach utilizes frameworks, tools, and evidence-based insights to understand and evaluate communication processes across diverse societal contexts.
Get your copy today to explore my chapter, which examines cases of decolonizing digital access in Sub-Saharan Africa, advancing the argument that we must move from a digital savior complex to digital solidarity, thereby marking a critical technological turn for the region and for how we tell Africa's digital story.
BLACK IDENTITIES & MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY
This book presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and their varying identities, with particular attention to attributes such as gender, sexuality, class, and ability status. By surveying newsprint, television, social media, podcasts, and more, this innovative collection explores intersections of identities and perspectives while centering the role of Black media creators, including producers, journalists, and influencers, to highlight Black representation across genres of mass media.
Grab a copy to unpack my chapter, which explores the visual rhetoric of Black Feminist Storytellers on Instagram—amongst other insightful chapters.
JIHAD IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
Grab a copy and flip its pages as I walk you through the nature of terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa—especially from the perspective of how emerging and established terrorist organizations leverage digital media to advance their agenda on the continent and globally.
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Join the inaugural cohort of this intensive 6-Month Mastermind Experience designed for daddyless daughters and single mothers ready to move beyond awareness into lasting transformation. Through deep self-discovery, expert guidance, practical tools, accountability, and a powerful community of like-minded women, you will reclaim your past, reframe your present, redesign your future!
Inside the UNLOCK YOU Mastermind, you will:
→ Uncover core wounds
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After reading my previous note, I hope you spent some time preparing and reflecting on how you’d have that uncomfortable conversation. I hope you pondered the dynamics that led to the disagreement in the first place. I hope you took the time to reflect on your emotions and biases to ensure you approach the conversation (regardless of whom you are having it with) open-mindedly and without judgment.