Precious Brady-Davis

Precious Brady-Davis (born 1985) is an American transgender author and climate and LGBT rights activist. She wrote the best-selling book I Have Always Been Me.

Biography
Brady-Davis was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and was in foster care as a toddler due to her mother's mental health issues. At age five, she moved in with her grandfather and his wife. In fourth grade, her peers started being homophobic towards her, and this worsened in middle school. In high school, she started to explore her identity. In her sophomore year, she moved into a foster home.

Brady-Davis attended the University of Nebraska. While living in Lincoln, Nebraska, she began performing drag using the name "Precious Jewel". She later transferred to Columbia College Chicago. While in Chicago, she came out as gay. Living in Boystown, she made a name for herself as a performance artist. She launched a US$1.6 million dollar CDC HIV Prevention program at Chicago's Center on Halsted, an LGBTQ community center. There, she was also a mentor of LGBTQ+ teens.

She and her husband Myles Brady-Davis had a baby girl in 2019. They became the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate. They live in Hyde Park. She currently works as a communications director at the Sierra Club, and is a nationally-known speaker and activist.

In July 2023, she became the first black trans woman to be appointed to a commissioner position at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

She is popular with LGBTQ+ teens, and has mentored a number of them.

Publications
Brady-Davis' memoir I Have Always Been Me was a best-selling Black biography on Amazon.

Filmography
Brady-Davis was a consulting producer for The Lady and the Dale.