Author & Community Builder
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The Work / How I Work
My name is Anika Nailah. I am an author and community builder. I help organizations like yours create a culture where individuals can have difficult yet productive conversations about and across race. Over time, this transforms your workplace into one where everyone feels seen and heard. Ultimately, you will see this dynamic reflected in both working relationships and organizational policies.
My team and I are creative and direct in our approach. So let me be honest. There will be tough moments when this work will feel too hard. Our job is to support you and your community as you stay the course. Throughout the experience, we will provide compassionate, reflective, actionable, and evaluative tools for you to interpret, measure, and celebrate your progress.
Who I Am
Of both African American and Indigenous lineage, I identify as an author and a community builder. In my work, I tap my own cultural reference points and those of my clients to co-create healing space. I hold this space for others to imagine how they can find their agency and voice– not the voice they’ve been told to use because of the skin suit into which they were born, but the one that sings them back home to their full humanity. You don’t know it yet, but my team and I might just be the ones you’ve been waiting for to help you walk through the door you may be afraid to open. The one that helps you reshape your landscape, be it your mind and/or your workplace to the space you’re just beginning to imagine it can be.
What All The Buzz is About
“The way Anika’s team works together teaches the most important rule to combat this system: you can’t have racial justice, healing and change without building trusting relationships first. I am grateful.”
— Jill Kantrowitz
Director of Institutional Advancement, Boston Day & Evening Academy
— Irma Camacho
Director of Operations, Boston Day & Evening Academy
— Bernadette Bean
Director of Human Resources, Community Action of Pioneer Valley
“Over time, I became more confident in facilitating “courageous conversations” about race and identifying biases in our school’s practices and protocols. With her guidance, the school was able to make great leaps.”