about

nana fofie amina bashir is a child of migrants from the south & nomads from the east, of the okomfo panyin & sufi sheik, the grand-daughter of gwendolyn & maryan.

she is a facilitator, coach/guide/co-consipirator, & expressive arts therapy practitioner. nana fofie connects embodied & ancestral practices, story & strategy in community and movement spaces in the gulf south & across the u.s.

an okomfo (spiritual & medicine healer practitioner), water & culture bearer & multimodal artist, nana fofie is firmly rooted in new orleans.

In addition to her work through wisdom’s ladder, nana fofie serves as a director of the institute for ashé movement, co-founded the wind & the warrior, a black and queer feminist indigenous healing arts collective, and is the creator of the altar project.