Tarik Daniels
City Commissioner @City of Austin
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WORK HISTORY
City Commissioner @City of Austin
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EDUCATION
Bowling Green State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Political Science/International Studies
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ABOUT TARIK DANIELS
Tarik Daniels is an AfroQueer writer, performer, and mental health & HIV awareness activist. Tarik is the Founder and Executive Director of WhatsintheMirror, a social movement that provides mental health awareness and suicide prevention through art and advocacy to communities of color. He is serving his second term as a City Commissioner for Austin’s LGBTQ Quality Of Life Advisory Board and Chair of the City of Austin’s HIV Planning Council.Tarik has written, directed, and produced several theater productions and released a novel, No Bonds So Strong in 2018 and hosts a black queer lifestyle podcast, What Works For Us. He is the winner of the 2019 Austin Under 40 Awards in Arts & Entertainment, 2020 SXSW Community Service Award Honoree, 2021 Plus Magazine Person of the Year, and Poz Magazine 10•••21, 2022 NAMI Central Texas DEI Honoree, 2021 BEQ Pride Forty Under 40, KVUE ABC 2022 Community Service Award Winner, & 2022 Future Leader from Pride Index Esteem Awards. He has been featured on Fox Soul, CBS Austin, POZ Magazine 100, Plus Magazine, National LGBT Theater, Broadway World, Voyage Dallas & Austin, Gilead Sciences, UpWork, Billboard, GLAAD Media, MTV News & More. Additionally he has more than ten years of Public Health Management & Leadership including HIV care and mental health services. Tarik currently serves as the Associate Director of Peer Advocacy for ASHwell Sexual Health & Wellness in Austin TX.
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