Liberation through restoration.

It means freedom.

In the West African Yoruba language, Òmìnira means liberation. Working from a liberatory framework, we help clients learn to center rest, healing, and restoration. Without this frame we risk carrying forward the toxicity of racism, sexism, patriarchy, homophobia and abelism.

At OmiNira, we believe that taking time to heal and rest is not a luxury, it is essential to how we collectively imagine a liberated future.

In order to imagine a liberated future, we can’t be mired in the problems of the present.

— Kimberly A.D Roberts, Founder & CEO

What We Do

OmiNira creates opportunities for people to step away from the constant demands of work and daily life and have room to breathe, reflect, and engage differently. We partner with organizations and communities to design thoughtful learning experiences that create space for deeper reflection and meaningful change.

Our work is rooted in the belief that when people have the opportunity to slow down and feel supported, they can reconnect with what matters and begin to imagine what could be different.

OmiNira focuses on healing and restoring people, organizations and communities that can imagine a better version of our collective future. We need to be well rested, clear minded and given opportunities to learn and engage in practices that shift them out of fight or flight and into peace and clarity. Our mission is to provide opportunities to do just that.

These principals are embedded in how we design the services below:

  • Understanding the historical conditions that created our current social, political and economic circumstances is an important and necessary step in working towards a liberated future. This foundational work allows participants to explore how political and organizational policies, both past and present, impact BIPOC communities, perpetuate harm and prop up silos that prevent movement building. 

    Core Curriculum Elements: Race, Policy and Inequity; Building a Shared Language; Imagining Our Shared Future

  • This work focuses on internal change – personal & organizational - and provides the opportunity for participants to explore how white normative culture impacts group norms, policies, practices, and communications. The focus is on the whole person and how personal experiences, beliefs and worldview influence and inform how we work together, make decisions and create conditions for shared liberation. Participants walk through a transformative process designed to center and build relationships, navigate generative conflict and create mechanisms for healing, repair and accountability.

    Core Curriculum Elements: Understanding + Unlearning White Normative Culture; Initiating the Transformation Process

  • OmiNira’s Liberation Framework is designed to provide space and opportunity for people to rest, play, connect, and shift out of survival mode and into a mindset of possibility and abundance. If you want people to imagine the future, they can’t be mired in the problems of the present. They need to be well rested, clear minded and given opportunities to learn and engage in practices that shift them out of fight or flight and into peace and clarity. 

Founder & CEO

Kimberly A.D. Roberts, M.A.Ed., MPP

Kimberly Roberts brings more than 20 years of experience to her work advancing equity across education, policy, and philanthropy. Guided by a deep commitment to justice and community, she helps people and organizations build the awareness, relationships, and practices needed to create more inclusive and equitable spaces.

As a National Coalition Building Institute-trained racial equity and social justice educator, Kimberly designs and facilitates workshops, coaches leaders, and partners with organizations working to dismantle institutional inequities and advance anti-racist practices. Her work also includes strategic leadership, donor and funder engagement, program strategy, and building philanthropic networks that move resources to BIPOC- and women-led organizations and communities.

Kimberly previously served as a Public Policy Fellow at Philanthropy New York, where she worked with funders on justice reform, gender equity, and racial justice. She is also a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and holds a Master of Public Policy from The New School, an M.A. in Education from the University of Connecticut, and a B.S. in Media, Culture, and Society from New York University.

It starts here.

Ready to take that first step? If our values align with the goals of your organization, fill out the inquiry form so we can discuss how OmiNira can best support you.

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