About Signal & Soul – Choices
The Stories We Inherit. The Signals We Become.
Every decision has a story behind it. Some stories are spoken openly. Others are passed quietly — through families, communities, traditions, memories, and lived experience. They shape how people understand health, trust institutions, seek information, and make choices. At Signal & Soul – Choices, we explore the conversations behind the decisions, and the whispers behind the data.
Signal & Soul – Choices is an informational resource and storytelling platform. Information provided through Clinical Trial Equity, Community Voices, Signal & Soul, and Transgenerational Whispers should not be considered medical advice. Always consult a healthcare professional before making medical decisions or participating in a clinical trial. Dates, especially trial closing dates, are frequently sponsor estimates — confirm directly with the trial site before making plans.
What is Transgenerational Whispers?
Transgenerational Whispers is an exploration of how communication, culture, memory, health, and lived experience travel across generations. Not everything we inherit is trauma — we inherit resilience, wisdom, faith, hope, and possibility as well.
Explore the framework →Community Voices
Community Voices highlights lived experiences, reflections, and observations from individuals and communities.
Community Voices →Clinical Trial Equity
Clinical Trial Equity helps make opportunities relevant to historically underrepresented communities easier to find, understand, and explore.
Clinical Trial Equity →How the data works
Trial listings are pulled directly from ClinicalTrials.gov and refreshed on the 1st of every month. Trials are automatically tagged by audience relevance, and a listing is removed once a trial is no longer recruiting — visit ClinicalTrials.gov directly for the full history of a closed trial.
This directory focuses on trials relevant to Black, Latino, and Spanish-speaking communities — it isn't a complete listing of every trial. For a broader search across all conditions, visit ClinicalTrials.gov directly.
Who this is for
Built for individuals, families, faith networks, HBCUs, medical associations, and community organizations working to close the gap in underrepresented clinical trial participation. Partner institutions and their contacts are listed in the institutions directory.
Leadership and contact information for partner institutions is published here as publicly available information, intended to support outreach and collaboration — the same names, titles, emails, and phone numbers you'd find listed on each institution's own public website. Information not listed on an institution's public website has been provided directly by that institution.
Who's behind this
Signal & Soul – Choices was created by James E. Gray, Sr., an HBCU graduate whose work spans behavioral health, technology, storytelling, and community engagement, with a philosophical thread running through all of it. His clinical background as a therapist shapes how this site approaches sensitive health information — with the same care that trust-building work demands.
His interest in health equity, participation, and human agency first took shape as Clinical Trial Equity. Over time, that work grew into a broader exploration of the stories and decisions behind the data — an exploration that became Transgenerational Whispers.
That same care shows up in concrete choices here: staying honest about what's missing rather than hiding gaps, and building toward expanding people's real choices rather than just listing data at them.