Black History Month series

Alisa McDuff has spent her whole life facing challenges like a champ. Born to black parents, she was raised by her adoptive white father who married her mother when she was a toddler. After losing her mother at a very young age, she was raised by her white father and an entire white family when years later her father remarried and she gained a new mother and adult siblings, all white. These events and people shaped Alisa’s life and helped her become a strong advocate of racial understanding. She has experienced life as a young black child and adult black women behind a different lens than most of her black brothers and sisters.
Today she raises her three daughters with a strong sense of self. With deep pride in her racial identity and also deep gratitude for her white family, she knows first hand how important it is to grow up with limitless potential and freedom of self expression.
Alisa is also a health advocate and a student of Ayurveda. Her goal is to make natural healing and self-care accessible for marginalized communities and underserved populations.