Precious Brady-Davis

Brady-Davis was born in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] and was in foster care as a toddler.[3][1] At age five, she moved in with her grandfather and his wife.[3][1] In high school, she started to explore her identity.[3][1]Brady-Davis attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.[1] While living in Lincoln, Nebraska, she began performing drag using the name "Precious Jewel".[1] She later transferred to Columbia College Chicago.[1] While in Chicago, she came out as gay.[3][1] Living in Boystown, she made a name for herself as a performance artist.[3] She launched a US$1.6 million dollar CDC HIV Prevention program at Chicago's Center on Halsted, an LGBT community center.[4][3][1] There, she was also a mentor of LGBT teens.[3]She and her husband Myles Brady-Davis had a baby girl in 2019.[3] They became the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate.[3][5] They live in Hyde Park.[3] She currently works as a Chief Strategy Officer at the Center on Halsted and is on the Board of Commissioners at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. She is also a nationally known speaker and activist.[6][3][1]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.[7]