Naima Penniman

<p id="internal-source-marker_0.5795922754332423" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Naima Penniman</span>&nbsp;is a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional artist, activist, and educator committed to social, environmental, racial, and sexual justice, planetary health, and love expansion. Her work focuses on igniting imagination, exposing injustice, and helping heal our inner trauma so that we may begin to cope with the issues facing our communities.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Naima gained national notoriety over the past eight years as half of Climbing PoeTree, the soul-sister spoken-word duo who have sharpened their art as a tool for popular education, community organizing, and personal transformation. She, alongside Alixa Garcia, has stirred 1000 crowds in more than 80 cities from Oakland to Atlanta, South Africa to Cuba alongside visionary leaders and artists such as Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, Vandana Shiva, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Danny Glover, The Last Poets, and Dead Prez. She has been a workshop facilitator and guest artist at hundreds of youth programs, conferences, correctional facilities, high schools and colleges-- from Cornell University to Rikers Island Academy. And she has painted murals on walls from the Bronx to Santiago de Cuba.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Granddaughter of a Haitian inventor, Naima conceived AYITI RESURRECT to enact her prayer: that Haiti's resulting resurrection outweigh the current catastrophe.In the aftermath of the January 12, 2010 earthquake she organized a grassroots collective of visionary artists, holistic healers, and community builders with bloodlines in Haiti and the African Diaspora to work in collaboration with local Haitian organizations in an effort to help address the psychological, spiritual and emotional healing of the survivors of the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Through art, movement and music therapy, yoga and meditation, plant medicine, environmental sustainability initiatives, peer to peer counseling, and mental wellness clinics, AYITI RESURRECT is dedicated to transforming trauma through collective healing.</p>

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