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Kama Mitchell

, TRHT Leadership Team

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Kama Tai Mitchell is a mama, tee tee, yogi, certified birth and death doula, dancer of the African Diaspora, and cultural healing arts innovator. She has a core belief that living an embodied life is the root of all healing. Kama is the founder and Executive Director of Rootead Enrichment Center in Kalamazoo, MI. A center focused on reducing epigenetic stress/trauma, de-stigmatizing mental health, and disrupting intergenerational poverty and disease through generative offerings and collaborations, while intentionally centering the lived experience of BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ folx. She practices and facilitates racial healing circles/wisdom keeping/embodied culture bearing and is a newer student of traditional West African Ifa, griot musicology, and ancestral lineage healing; she now incorporates these learnings into her yogic lifestyle. She identifies as a mixed race, queer, radical, abolitionist, and a grand lover of life in all its natural splendor.

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