The SHAKTI Study is a study by JIVINITI, the Research and Creative Communications Program of The Virsa Foundation, Inc.
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Her diary · Black · in her 30s

Brianna

Brianna calls herself “Laid back, easygoing, funny, loving, loyal.” She is raising a young daughter while working full time and going to school online. She likes “to think about the good in things.”

a mother of a young daughter, working full time and studying online · 3 of 5 days in the diary

All names in these stories are pseudonyms.

Her diary, day by day

  1. Day 1 · You

    lunch chicken burrito because it’s healthy and affordable

    on a typical day’s plate

  2. Day 2 · Your world

    Going back to school to be a motivation to my daughter that she can do anything she sets her mom to be

    one of the defining moments on her timeline

  3. Day 3 · Nutrition

    Soul food

    how she names her own food

  4. Day 4 · Resilience

    She did not write on this day.

  5. Day 5 · Envisioning

    She did not write on this day.