Niambi Jaha-Echols
Niambi Jaha-Echols is a mother, wife, author, visionary, social entrepreneur, transformational life coach, lecturer, artist and inspirational speaker with over 25 years experience working with various modalities of creativity.
Recognizing the challenges that girls of African descent face with issues of cultural displacement and positive cultural identification, Niambi was inspired to write “Project Butterfly: Supporting Young Women and Girls of African Descent through the Transitions of Life”. The book supports and encourages young women and girls through the changes and challenges of life using the life cycle of a butterfly as a wonderful model of transition.
Receiving such positive response from young girls and women across the country, in 2004 she was inspired to create Camp Butterfly, a summer resident camp experience designed to transform and empower young girls of African descent.
Niambi is dedicated to inspiring transformation in others through her work as a consultant, author and speaker. She currently serves on the National Board of Directors for the American Camp Association and has been featured in Essence Magazine, Ebony Magazine and on MSN.com. She has also been recognized by the State of Illinois and Essence Magazine, as a woman who is “shaping the world”.
Recognizing the challenges that girls of African descent face with issues of cultural displacement and positive cultural identification, Niambi was inspired to write “Project Butterfly: Supporting Young Women and Girls of African Descent through the Transitions of Life”. The book supports and encourages young women and girls through the changes and challenges of life using the life cycle of a butterfly as a wonderful model of transition.
Receiving such positive response from young girls and women across the country, in 2004 she was inspired to create Camp Butterfly, a summer resident camp experience designed to transform and empower young girls of African descent.
Niambi is dedicated to inspiring transformation in others through her work as a consultant, author and speaker. She currently serves on the National Board of Directors for the American Camp Association and has been featured in Essence Magazine, Ebony Magazine and on MSN.com. She has also been recognized by the State of Illinois and Essence Magazine, as a woman who is “shaping the world”.
