Naima Nicole
Manager of Grants and Development
Naima joined Musical Empowerment in the Spring 2023 as a contractor supporting our fundraising and development efforts. By Winter 2023 we expanded her role and she joined our programming team and began meeting with our chapter leadership for weekly coaching meetings. Prior to joining ME Naima worked as a media producer and journalist. Her career started in Washington, DC, where she also got her degree in Journalism and Economics from Howard University. For 10 years Naima learned the in’s and out’s of being a journalist and TV Producer in the nation’s capital. In that time Naima worked for and was published by CNN, ABC, and NBC. After a decade in DC, Naima returned to her birth place and continued her career as a TV Producer in the San Francisco Bay Area where she worked for CBS San Francisco and FOX.
In 2017, Naima transitioned into the world of non-profit’s via a production company funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS. During this experience Naima was introduced to the world of fundraising and issue based reporting and education. In 2021 Naima moved to North Carolina and has since been supporting various non-profit organizations across the Triangle as a grant writer, and digital assistant.
Naima is thrilled to again expand her role with Musical Empowerment and looks forward to supporting the organization at this very exciting and pivotal time of growth and expansion!