Books & resources
Books & Resources by Dr. Renetta D. Weaver: Things Worth Taking With You.
Two books, two different rooms. One is about the capacity you are trying to build. The other is about the profession deciding how it will meet artificial intelligence.
Featured book
AI Soft Life® Boss: Reimagining Black Innovation to Build What’s Next with AI
- Capacity
- Cognitive load
- Black innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Systems
- Personal and professional AI use
What if AI isn’t the threat, but the tool that helps you build the life you’ve been praying for?
AI Soft Life® Boss isn’t simply a book about technology. It’s about capacity.
In this story-rich guide, Dr. Renetta D. Weaver reframes Black innovation as a pattern of courage, clarity, ingenuity and systems thinking. Drawing connections between historic Black innovation and today’s AI tools, she explores how AI can help people reduce overwhelm, expand their capacity, turn ideas into systems, and design work and life that function for them rather than against them.
The book is for people who have been carrying too much, whose vision feels bigger than their bandwidth, and who want to explore AI without compromising their voice, creativity, values or humanity.
AI should not simply give people more things to do. Used intentionally, it can help you:
- Reduce cognitive load
- Reclaim time
- Reduce repetitive work
- Turn ideas into repeatable systems
- Expand personal and professional capacity
- Create more room for meaningful human work
Also available
The Change Agent’s Code: Why Social Workers Must Lead the AI Revolution, Not Fear It
- Social work
- Human services
- Ethics
- Responsible AI
- Organizational leadership
- Policy
- Professional practice
This book speaks directly to social workers and human-service professionals navigating the emergence of artificial intelligence. Dr. Renetta Weaver draws on her experience in social work and AI consulting to examine responsible AI integration across human services, clinical practice, agency leadership, professional ethics, policy, digital literacy, organizational systems and client dignity.
It challenges social workers not to remain on the sidelines of technological change, and it stays practical:
- Reducing administrative burden responsibly
- Establishing AI boundaries and guardrails
- Responsible AI adoption
- Organizational implementation
- Digital literacy
- AI policy
- Protecting human judgment and dignity
- Keeping social workers in the conversations shaping the technology used in human services
Written for
- Social workers
- Human-service professionals
- Clinicians
- Agency leaders
- Educators
- Universities
- Nonprofits
- Professional associations
- Organizations exploring responsible AI adoption
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