Tiffany Brown
West Dayton Stories Community ProducerTiffany L Brown APRN, aka Tiffany NP, is a family nurse practitioner, certified yoga teacher, community activist and healthy living advocate.
She received her BS in Natural Sciences from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, with plans to attend medical school; however she was called to embark upon a journey in nursing, following in the footsteps of her grandmother Winnie Mildred-Robinson Brown and received her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Nursing from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
Her passion is helping people overcome the healthcare challenges they face so they may live their healthiest lives possible. She believes in providing person-centered, holistic care that is sensible, practical and that honors the body’s innate healing power, and that also recognizes the uniqueness of each person's culture, family and life experiences.
She is also very active in community initiatives in Dayton, OH, where she lives. She is a Nation Builder with the Dayton Africana Elders Council, a board member for Young Ladies Aspiring Greatness and Unified Power Community Land Trust; she is also cofounder of West Dayton Strong and serves on the Pathways Community Hub Advisory Board and Gem City Market Health & Wellness Committee. She is also helping to emerge a social enterprise cooperative called The HeArt, House of Healing Arts, which is reimagining coworking as a space for intentional collaboration; weaving together storytelling, wellness services and healing practices.
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In the premier issue of “West Dayton Stories Zine,” producers of WYSO’s popular series “West Dayton Stories”—including amaha sellasie, Tiffany L. Brown, Omopé Carter Daboiku, Love’Yah Stewart, and Jaylon Yates—briefly introduce themselves and give readers useful tips for everything from photography to fashion to gardening. Readers also can scan QR codes that will take them to archived episodes (some of them longer than those that first aired) from the inaugural season of the series. -
West Dayton residents were without access to healthy foods, to quality fresh fruits and vegetables. But when the community decided to no longer accept the unacceptable, the Gem City Market emerged. And it's so much more than a grocery store. -
Community producer Loveyah Stewart’s family is deeply rooted in West Dayton. Her grandparents came up from Mississippi and Alabama in the 1940s, and now three generations have lived in her home on West Third Street. -
Our community producers have been considering the notion of Black Joy on West Dayton Stories, and this week, Tiffany Brown uses the performance art of spoken word poetry in her piece, “Stillness…to Joy”. -
For many people, voting is considered a sacred act. As we mark the transition to the Biden-Harris administration and look forward to the next four years, we hear from nurse practitioner and wellness advocate Tiffany Brown. She shares her thoughts on the choices she faced in the most recent presidential election. -
Dayton’s African American community has a rich history and a vibrant present, and there are important stories of strength and resilience to be told. We launched the West Dayton Stories project in the winter of 2020, bringing together a group of Dayton residents as community producers.
