365 Diversity, LLC

Helping schools, businesses, and organizations make measurable and lasting changes

Meet Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis

Kimya Nuru Dennis, Ph.D. is founder of 365 Diversity.

As a social-community activist, sociologist and criminologist, Kimya Nuru Dennis is invested in educating, training, evaluating, and assessing for-profit organizations and non-profit organizations.

As a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary educator, trainer, facilitator, evaluator and researcher, Kimya Nuru Dennis specializes in demographic and cultural factors contributing to K-12 and colleges-universities, workforce and workplace, law-police-court-penal system, and medical-health system.

This captures a range of issues including:

Recruitment and training methods for schools, businesses, and organizations
Teaching and learning design and implementation for schools
Factors contributing to health conditions, access to health services, and health outcomes
Improving police departments, law enforcement, court system, and penal system

This reaches local, national, and international populations with focus on underserved, underrepresented, and marginalized people

Training, workshop, evaluation, assessment, research

Kimya Nuru Dennis, Ph.D. is active in the community in planning and hosting community events, presenting for community programs, serving on board of directors, and having culturally conscious mental health tables at community events.

This includes participating in interviews and guest columns for organizations such as Mental Health America of Virginia; outlets such as HuffPost Blog, ThinkProgress.org, Laura Carroll.com; newspapers Winston-Salem Chronicle and Richmond Free Press; and 88.5 WFDD NPR, Here & Now WBUR, All Things Considered on 89.7 WOSU NPR, Matt Townsend Show on BYU Radio, Strange Fruit on 89.3 WFPL.

With an investment in organizational justice and social justice, Kimya Nuru Dennis is trained in Policy Engagement Training for Researchers, Wake Forest School of Medicine Health Equity Research Opportunity (HERO) Fellowship, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (A.S.I.S.T.), Advanced Issues in Suicide Intervention, Soul Shop: Ministering to Suicidal Desperation (Trainee and Trainer), Mental Health First Aid Certification, safeTALK, and SafeZone. Kimya Nuru Dennis has also volunteered with Crisis Intervention Team Training (CIT).

In addition to being a criminologist and sociologist, Kimya Nuru Dennis is a childfree-by-choice sociologist invested in sexual rights and freedoms and reproductive rights and freedoms. Dr. Dennis conducted the first known study solely with childfree African diaspora in U.S. and around the world and created and taught the first childfree college course.

Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Kimya Nuru Dennis is a product of predominantly Black K-12 Richmond Public Schools and earned bachelor's and master's in Richmond, Virginia.

Kimya Nuru Dennis lived in North Carolina for 17 years, eight years in Raleigh to earn doctorate and nine years in Winston-Salem as faculty.

Now living in Baltimore, Maryland, Kimya Nuru Dennis's work is local, national, and international.

Interviews and Presentations

In this conversation we talk about diversity and inclusion and whether or not those programs actually work and bring about change.

Shattering the stereotypes.

Afro Swag Magazine

African diaspora discussing diversity daily.

Suicide Prevention and Social Media (SPSM)

Suicide in marginalized communities.

Childfree-by-choice

How much actual freedom are you willing to give people in their beliefs? Most people fall into the trap of trying to impose their beliefs on others in some way. Liberals, for example, will speak of freedom in many areas of life, but they still hold to pro-natal opinions about people having children.

Social isolation: Loneliness in the Black community

Blacks are often told to "pray it away" and to be silent about negative emotions and mental struggles.

This can only be dismantled with constant discussion and increasing racially conscious education and training for medical-health students and medical-health providers-professionals.

Race and Childfreedom

This conversation is rich and touches on several subjects that cross over what being childfree means. We only scratched the surface and encourage you to dig deeper into these issues.

PopUpPodcast: Promise Mangum and Kimya Nuru Dennis

In Winston-Salem, NC having a good discussion with Promise Mangum and PopUpPodcast.

Being Childfree or Childless is NOT Race Neutral

The NotMom Conversation: How race and ethnicity connect with being childfree and being childless.

Why and how this is not your typical diversity training

Why and how to Discuss Diversity Daily

Trainings, workshops, evaluations, and assessments

Results-based