Hello!
It's nice to meet you.
My name is Nakia; it means pure + faithful in Arabic. I am a writer, journalist, and educator. My speciality is launching programming in collaboration with the people it directly impacts and serves. I love curating experiences where humans feel inspired. I publish books that are created for and by Black girls, women, and youth.
Read my full bioOfferings
I believe writing is a tool for self-exploration, healing, and radical self-care.
Launching Programming
Do you have a program in mind that you just can’t seem to get off the ground? Hire me to provide consulting, coaching, or to launch a program that directly serves women or youth.
Book Prodution
Produce a beautiful print or digital anthology that is written by and for people in their most authentic voices.
Speaking + Teaching
Invite me into your educational, corporate, or community space to read my personal writing, discuss the impact of using writing as a tool for healing, and the impact of writing in the lives of women + youth.
Writing
Journalism is my first love. I am always open to writing long form feature stories and op-ed pieces about education, racial justice, travel, food, art, love, and such.
Work
My speciality is launching programming in collaboration with the people it directly impacts and serves. I love curating experiences where humans feel inspired.
Projects
R-O-X-B-U-R-Y public art project, with Joe Wardwell
826 Boston
Girls, Write!
International Women’s Writing Guild
Double Elvis Productions
How We Take Up Space
Publisher
Boston Art Review
Guest Editor and Board Member
How We May Appear
Publication Director
Heels into the Soil: Stories & Poems Resisting the Silence
Program and book project director
I Still Did It
Editor
Water Carrier
Author
"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.” Proverbs 31:25-26
