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Sisterly Sentiments equips Black women at HBCUs to lead with clarity, strength, and wholeness. We build leadership rooted in legacy, restorative and healing-centered practice, and the power of community and sisterhood. Our mission is to ensure that Black women step into leadership fully prepared to shape institutions, transform communities, and secure the future.
Our vision is to see women of HBCUs step into roles as changemakers with support, wholeness, and community.
Building with the past and future in mind, our core values are sisterhood, legacy, restoration, excellence, scholarship, and culture.
Dr. Tamill Harris launched Sisterly Sentiments in 2017 as a way to support, encourage, and empower Black women. After focusing on her studies while pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at Clark Atlanta University, she shelved Sisterly Sentiments with a promise to relaunch it. Soon after earning her doctorate, she began working on this effort and completely reimagined the organization. While still centered on Black women and their role in society, Dr. Harris shifted her focus to HBCU students, faculty, and researchers. After relaunching Sister Sentiments, Dr. Harris launched the Daughters of Legacy Leadership Institute, which brought together some of the brightest and most passionate HBCU women from her alma mater, Clark Atlanta University, to make up the inaugural cohort. Soon to follow will be the Vision and Legacy Residency for faculty and researchers, the Echo Table & Soft Power Series for Black women with terminal degrees, and the Unwritten work to encourage and inspire Black women scholars to turn their unfinished manuscripts into masterpieces.
As a first-generation college graduate who went on to earn a Ph.D. from the Atlanta School, this Atlanta native aims to invest in Black women what she sought from others in her search for mentorship. With over 20 years of experience in leadership roles in the government and nonprofit sectors, Dr. Harris observed that few women in similar roles looked like her. This reality had a profound impact on her, and she made a promise to support Black women as they started their careers.
As someone who believes in community, supporting Black women, and paying it forward, Dr. Harris wishes to see Sisterly Sentiments build relationships, bridge gaps, and catapult innovative ideas, projects, and leadership into spaces where they can thrive. The organization exists to nurture vision, restore strength, and create pathways that ensure Black women are not only seen and heard but invested in as builders of the future.
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