Undocumented Workers: Black Women's Work and Community Health Activism

There is an image of the Black community that is not widely communicated to the public via the environment, education, economics, physical safety, health, and wellness. This report seeks to counter-tell this distorted image through the use of narrative. Using narrative inquiry and textual analysis as method, and Black feminist thought and womanist epistemology1 as theoretical framework, this report seeks to counter-tell the story of a Black woman as community activist and micromobilizer while adding to the scholarly and historical record by documenting her work and that of her collaborators in health and social activism. This work provides a space to frame Rev. Dr. Alika Galloway's experiences and reshape the dominant culture's distorted and incomplete picture of Black women's work in community and health activism.