Nana Fofie Amina Bashir
Nana Fofie Amina Bashir is a cultural organizer and expressive arts therapist in Bulbancha/New Orleans, LA on Choctaw, Chitimacha, & Houma lands.
As an artist and facilitator, she works with grassroots organizations and community groups that are working to create arts and culture programs, decolonize spaces and justice movements, and to develop and expand accountability practices. As a therapist, Nana Fofie provides culturally resonant, narrative, arts, and movement therapy to individuals, families, and groups, with a focus on marginalized populations. A spiritualist (okomfo paynin) and healing practitioner trained in the Akom tradition of West Africa, Nana Fofie is one-quarter of The Wind & The Warrior, a collaborative that works with spiritualists and practitioners, organizers, and artists to co-learn and integrate cultural and traditional practices for deeper integration and greater impact of our missions.
E-mail: okomfoanum@gmail.com