About Rev. Dr. E-K Daufin
Rev. Dr. E-K Daufin (She/Her) is an award-winning author, Fat Liberation, intersectional, multi-religious, multi-faceted, social change artist. She is a speaker, performer, coach, consultant, ceremony and workshop facilitator, educator, ordained feminist minister, and activist. She earned her doctorate in multimedia communication from the Ohio State University. Dr. E-K. is the founding adviser of the National Organization for Women, Campus Action Network at Alabama State University, a historic HBCU in Montgomery, AL -- where her company (E-K. Daufin & Associates) is headquartered.
Her multi-media work has been published in many forums – including her book On Fat And Faith; Ending Weight Stigma in Yourself, Sanctuary and Society, in The Los Angeles Times, ESSENCE magazine, the Associated Press, academic journals, monographs and books. She won many awards from organizations such as The Minorities And Communication Division and Commission on the Status of Women (Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication), The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation and others.
She always shows up as her justice-oriented, intersectional self – Black, Fat, Cis Straight Woman, Spirit-Centered, Multicultural, Working Class, Trauma Survivor, and other identities. She seeks to be an ally to other oppressed communities. Dr. E-K’s ultimate goal is to midwife the Divine Feminine rising on Mother Earth, Creating a Just Beloved Partnership Society by getting in to “Good Trouble” with allies from this plane and others.
She always shows up as her justice-oriented, intersectional self – Black, Fat, Cis Straight Woman, Spirit-Centered, Multicultural, Working Class, Trauma Survivor, and other identities. She seeks to be an ally to other oppressed communities. Dr. E-K’s ultimate goal is to midwife the Divine Feminine rising on Mother Earth, Creating a Just Beloved Partnership Society by getting in to “Good Trouble” with allies from this plane and others.
Dr. E-K. has performed and studied internationally, conducting ceremonies and workshops for myriad universities, libraries and organizations such Canada’s National Center for Eating Disorders, the Los Angeles Center for Alcoholism Prevention for Women, etc. She has worked with many Fat Positive organizations including National Association for the Advancement of Fat Acceptance (as cross cultural liaison to the Black Community, NAAFA50 fat fashion model, speaker and workshop leader), ASDAH, the Fat Studies Division of the international Popular Culture Association, Binge Eating Disorders Association and others.
Christened a Catholic, calling upon all her blood and adopted lines, baptized a Baptist, whittled in to a wiccan by the sharp blade of tribulations, born with her paternal grandmother’s healing hands and her mother’s psychic gifts but without the family of origin’s profoundly sick psyche, lifelong meditator, dreamtime dancer, vocalist, student of many spiritual paths, passions and potions, she is motivated to heal the past and current trauma of multiple abuses prolific in the patriarchy both personally and planetarily.
Across all these spiritual paths she has found and fought against higher weight stigma and for Fat Positivity. She seeks to show you how to begin (or better) to do the same…if you dare, in your own faith. Come as you are. Thank you. You’re beautiful. I love you.