from Left to Right: Ife Kilimanjaro, Nana Fofie Bashir, Nana Korantema Pierce Williams, Karma Mayet

About Us

We are a group of four sisters who responded to an inner Call in 2015 to organize The Wind & The Warrior, while a larger circle of Spiritualists and Activists provide consultation on a variety of issues. 

We cannot speak on who we are without acknowledging the call of the Ancestors, Abosom, Orisha and Spirit Guides for such a coming together in this particular moment in history.  Nor can we share about ourselves without recognizing the role of the Circle of Light Society, an African Indigenous cultural institution in Washington, DC where we (the four co-founders of Wind & Warrior) have cultivated spiritual sisterhood together for over 25 years, across decades and geography, in ceremony, learning, and practice.  

As activists and as initiates of indigenous spiritual systems, we (the Wind & Warrior Founders) asked ourselves what, in addition to our current work as community organizers, can we offer to the larger fight for systemic change? Some of us have met and worked with social and environmental activists who expressed an interest in deepening their spiritual practice individually and in community with others.  And as spiritualists, we came to know others who wanted to deepen their activism and direct their spiritual work toward social transformation.  Additionally, we acknowledge the immense need for healing within social movements at the individual, interpersonal and community levels.  We wondered what could happen if we brought folks like these together to explore how greater alignment of activism and spirituality together and within each of us can lead to greater impact on our communities, movements and beyond. 

We are:

Nana Fofie Amina Bashir

Nana Fofie Amina Bashir

Nana Fofie Amina Bashir, MA, PCC • Facilitator, Abettor, Realm Traveler, Expressive Arts Therapist

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For over 25 years, Nana Fofie has brought healing to her work as a cultural organizer, educator, activist, coach and facilitator. In 2015 she started Wisdom’s Ladder to work with individuals, families, and community organizations with a focus on addressing systemic and generational trauma in marginalized communities and healing for healers. In New Orleans, Nana Fofie works as an expressive arts therapist and as a community facilitator for grassroots organizations, and community groups working to decolonize spaces and movements, create and expand accountability practices, and to create cultural arts programs. She has worked with individuals and organizations across the U.S. and in India, Canada, South Africa, and Mexico. A spiritualist and healer trained in the Akom tradition in West Africa, Nana Fofie is passionate about curiosity, radical imaginations, and the (re)integration of our indigenous knowledges into our education, community practices, and future visioning. 

 

Karma Mayet • Artist, Educator, Mystic, MFA, RYT
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Karma Mayet

Karma Mayet

Karma Mayet is based in Brooklyn, New York and originally from Chicago, of Mississippi heritage.  Her gift as a channel of ancestral spirits has informed her life since childhood. Sharing messages from family ancestors and elemental beings, she offers healing modalities grounded in Sacred Rootwork.  Her work with youth in community settings, arts education, and grassroots organizations for the last two decades facilitates the cultivation of peace through justice within relationships. As creator of the Rootsong* practice, she shares the process of somatic improvisation as a tool for personal and communal transformation. As poet, composer/performer, educator, and yogi, she brings the same reverence for the Mystery to each modality. 

 

Nana A. Korantema Pierce Williams

Nana A. Korantema Pierce Williams

Nana A. Korantemah Pierce Williams • MS-Mind Body Medicine, CMT-Certified Massage Therapist

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For over 20 years, Nana Korantemah has been an Akan Priestess (origin Ghana, West Africa), spearheading sacred healing rites for individuals and organizations. As an advocate for community growth, development, and healing, her body of work includes: developing and conducting individual and collective self-care and mindfulness practices; leading traditional empowerment and awareness programs for Rites of Passage entities; facilitation of small group trainings for survivors of trauma in its various forms; disrupting stagnant actions and thoughts through positive activities within grass roots and community environments; and therapeutic bodywork, exploring the intersections of touch, guided imagery, meditation, and breath work as vehicles of release for various conditions in the body.  Nana Korantemah is a wife, sister, daughter, godmother, healer, educator, and life-long learner, who remains humbled by the healing power of compassion, forgiveness, and love.

 

Ife Afriye Fagbulu Kilimanjaro, Ph.D. • Spirit-Healer-Warrior. Climate Activist. Writer.

Ife Afriye Fagbulu Kilimanjaro

Ife Afriye Kilimanjaro’s experiences as a grandmother, author, and activist are informed by a deep commitment to justice and a better world. As an Okomfo (spiritual healer in the Akom tradition of West Africa), Afriye seeks understanding of our inner worlds (mind, body, and spirit) and offers strategies and insights to encourage healthy, whole relationships. Since 2021, Afriye has served as Co-Executive Director of Soul Fire Farm, an Afro-Indigenous farm community dedicated to uprooting racism in the food system. She will soon transition to the US Climate Action Network in the role of Executive Director. In this role, Afriye will continue to evolve her sacred relationship with the earth and honor her commitment to justice and creating a better world for generations.

For more information about Ife click here and for more on her work, click here.