Hanifa Nayo Washington

Co-Founder & Cultivator of Beloved Community, Fireside Project

Hanifa Nayo Washington is an award-winning cultural producer & sacred activist combining arts, healing, and activism to make the world a better place for 20+ years. Hanifa is a co-founder of Fireside Project and serves as the Cultivator Of Beloved Community. Fireside Project developed and launched the first national Psychedelic Peer Support Line in April 2021. She is a founding member of the Equity in Psychedelic Therapy Initiative and an Advisory Board Member of Reconsider @ Lundy Farm. As a sacred activist, Hanifa views her creative gifts as radical tools for liberation, healing, and community building. In 2017 she released her 3rd album Mantras for the Revolution. In December 2018 Hanifa received a Phenomenal Women Arts Award from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven for her contributions and achievements in the arts. Hanifa is the Principal Organizer & Co-Founding Practitioner of One Village Healing, a BIPOC womxn led mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness initiative that centers inclusion, accessibility, mindfulness, preventative health, affinity healing, and psychedelic wellness as central elements. OVH centers the specific healing needs of those most impacted by systems of oppression. Hanifa is a certified Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Master Practitioner who graduated from Beloit College in 2001 with a B.A. in Communications & Russian & Soviet Studies.