Talibah Atiya Najee Aquil is a multifaceted teacher, facilitator, artist, and healer,  but at the center of everything she does is a story of self and society-and helping others learn how to reclaim that story for themselves. This is getting to the root of healing work. Decolonizing perceptions, thoughts, and narratives about what it means to be Black in America, and in the world. She is founder of We Are Magic! Where she leads healing tours to Ghana for people of the African Diaspora to return to the place of their ancestral lineage and connect to their birthright to belong, be welcomed, and tell their own stories of their past, present, and future selves. Talibah graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre and earned her Masters in Conflict Transformation at The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She crafts and tends spaces for trauma healing with a racial justice lens on the level of self, community, and culture using restorative justice, circle processes, poetry, music, dance, history, and lived experience. Talibah is also a lecturer at The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at EMU, where she created a course entitled “Re-imagining Identity” that examines the intersections of identity, story-telling, dignity, and the arts; in this course she created safe spaces for student-teachers to explore the complexities of identity as it relates to oneself and others.

Contact Talibah: [email protected]