Atima Omara

Atima Omara is an award-winning leader in politics and the progressive movement who has worked as staff on many political campaigns including organizing African and Caribbean immigrants for labor and community organizations. She is the immediate past president of the Young Democrats of America (YDA), where she served as the first African-American President of the nation’s largest partisan youth organization from 2013-15. In 2016, she was elected a member of the Democratic National Committee from Virginia. She is a Ford Foundation Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.