Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Chris Omni is a two-time TEDx speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, Black joy scholar, eco-artist, and optimal aging activist.Her research explores nature's influence on the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being of Black people with an emphasis on Black women.Dr. Omni's dissertation was recognized as the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year by the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry.By blending her 25-year background in public health with her foreground in art education, Dr. Omni's presentations provide a counternarrative to the typical deficit lens generally applied to the research and representation of Black experiences.She is a go-to source for creative and compassionate conversations that lead to community change.
Authors: Chris Omni, Cody Hays
Institution: Florida State University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411492715