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Our Mission
Mission. Vision. Guiding Value.
Misssion
Vision: A world where African adoptees thrive fully rooted in who They are becoming, their heritage, fully seen in their identity, and fully empowered to come home to them self.
A world where every African and Black transracial adoptee feels rooted in identity, supported in healing, and connected to community.
To empower African international and interracial adoptees through heritage reconnection, Access to Trauma -inform Therapy. Identity healing, mentorship, and advocacy fostering cultural pride, personal agency, and community belonging.
MISSION
VISSION
CORE VALUES
Adoptee-Centered: We prioritize the voices, lived experiences, and needs of adoptees in everything we do. Nothing about adoptees without adoptees.
Core Value
Vission
Consent & Autonomy: Participation is always voluntary. Every individual has full control over what they share, how they share, and what remains private.
Cultural Grounding: We honor African identity, heritage, and cultural connection as essential to healing and belonging.
Trauma-Informed Care: We create spaces that are emotionally safe, non-judgmental, and mindful of lived experiences of loss, separation, and identity disruption.
Community & Belonging: (Ubuntu)We believe healing happens in connection.
“I am because we are.”
Growth & AccountabilityWe remain open to learning, unlearning, and improving as we serve our community.
Meet The Founder
NIA Roots is a 501c (3) nonprofit establish by an African adoptee for Interracial adoptees to supportive community for African adoptees, provide access to Trauma-inform Therapy. Fostering connection empowering them to to heritage and identity through shared experiences and resources.
Growing up as a West African, Liberian child, Adoption found me at age 14 while living at the Hannah B. Williams orphanage home in Monrovia. I was adopted to a family that found me but didn't know how to accept all of me, the parts of my early traumatic life that they were never preview to before i came to their family.
Adopted into an interracial family Living in Montana with less exposure to my name, or tools to cultivate cultural, or encourage to my identity with access to Mental Health therapy or connection ancestry I often felt a deep sense of grief, lost, confusions and disconnection from my heritage, my culture, and even my own identity.
Like so many African interracial adoptees, there often this sense of rootlessness to oneself. I have spend years asking the question that every adoptee often ask themselves, "Who am I" what is my place in this world" "where and to whom to i belong"
I experienced the challenges of navigating life between two worlds, feeling unseen, and longing for a connection to my roots. Seeking access to Trauma-inform Therapy for years. These personal experiences shaped my journey of healing, self-discovery, and the will to create a place where you like me we can all feel belonging through share lived experience as we continue to walk the journeys of healing and seek the essence of who we are or where we belong.
Our Founder’s Roots Story
Why Nia Roots?
Founded to empower African adoptees through access Trauma-inform Mental health resources. Nia Roots offers a space to reconnect with roots and thrive, ensuring no one navigates this journey alone.
I started NIA Roots to provide access to Mentle health resouces, create a space where African adoptees can reconnect with their heritage, feel seen, and thrive because no one should navigate this journey alone."
Meet Our Team
Dedicated professionals supporting parents and adoptees with compassion and expertise.
Meet Our Dedicated Team
Connect with the support behind Nia Roots' vision.
