Tanika Gray Valbrun is an award-winning journalist, health advocate, educator, and storyteller with more than 20 years of experience at CNN. She is the Founder and CEO of The White Dress Project, a nonprofit born from her own uterine fibroid journey that has grown into a global movement reaching more than 800,000 women.

A three-time Peabody Award recipient, Tanika has used her platform to elevate the voices and lived experiences of women navigating fibroids and other reproductive health challenges. She serves as Chair of the Community Advisory Board for PEACE, an NIH-funded research grant at the University of Michigan, chairs a Brigham and Women’s Hospital–PCORI patient advocacy board, and is an adjunct professor at Spelman College, where she teaches and mentors the next generation of health advocates.

Tanika has testified before Congress, written the legislation and led the national effort to designate July as Fibroid Awareness Month, and built a powerful ecosystem rooted in research, storytelling, policy, and sisterhood. Through her work, she continues to challenge silence, shift culture, and demand that women’s health be treated with the urgency, dignity, and investment it deserves.

Her coauthored book, From Fibroids to Freedom, arrives in July 2026.

Tanika is based in Atlanta, where she lives with her husband and their son. Her life’s work is clear: make the world listen to women’s health, and make sure it never stops.