Donna Oriowo
LICSW, CST, M
MD, USDr. Donna-- taking large concepts like race, sex, gender, and mental health Yes, self-esteem, too), and breaking it down to bite-sized chunks that are applicable for your organization & your LIFE!
Dr. Donna Oriowo (oreo-whoa!) LICSW, CST, is an award-winning DEI advocate, international speaker and certified sex and relationship therapist in the Washington D.C. metro area. She is the owner of private practice, AnnodRight, which specializes in working with Black women on issues related to colorism and texturism and its impacts on mental and sexual health.
She is the author of Cocoa Butter & Hair Grease: A Self Love Journey Through Hair and Skin and the host of a weekly family meeting for Black women called In My Black Feelings. Dr. Donna collects inspiring quotes, eats donuts, loves pasta, travels to learn, gives COVID safe handshakes, warm hugs, and (figurative) knocks on the head. She served as DEI Co-chair and Communications Steering Committee Chair for AASECT. Dr. Donna is a member of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCSHN).
Looking for a transformative, entertaining, but thought provoking speaker who breaks down large concepts like race, sex, gender, and mental health, into bite sized chunks that are digestible and applicable to your organization? Want someone who moves you toward change? If you answered “hell yeah” to any of those, then Dr. Donna is who you have been looking for! Dr. Donna Oriowo will make you laugh, and she might also make you cry. But don’t worry, this clinically licensed social worker won’t leave you hanging.
Dr. Donna Oriowo can be found on Facebook and Instagram @Dr. DonnaOriowo. OR you can visit her on the interwebs at DonnaOriowo.com. OR if you are a dope Black woman join the Free, Fabulous, and F*cked community on Facebook.
Dr. Donna Oriowo (oreo-whoa!) LICSW, CST, is an award-winning DEI advocate, international speaker and certified sex and relationship therapist in the Washington D.C. metro area. She is the owner of private practice, AnnodRight, which specializes in working with Black women on issues related to colorism and texturism and its impacts on mental and sexual health.
She is the author of Cocoa Butter & Hair Grease: A Self Love Journey Through Hair and Skin and the host of a weekly family meeting for Black women called In My Black Feelings. Dr. Donna collects inspiring quotes, eats donuts, loves pasta, travels to learn, gives COVID safe handshakes, warm hugs, and (figurative) knocks on the head. She served as DEI Co-chair and Communications Steering Committee Chair for AASECT. Dr. Donna is a member of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCSHN).
Looking for a transformative, entertaining, but thought provoking speaker who breaks down large concepts like race, sex, gender, and mental health, into bite sized chunks that are digestible and applicable to your organization? Want someone who moves you toward change? If you answered “hell yeah” to any of those, then Dr. Donna is who you have been looking for! Dr. Donna Oriowo will make you laugh, and she might also make you cry. But don’t worry, this clinically licensed social worker won’t leave you hanging.
Dr. Donna Oriowo can be found on Facebook and Instagram @Dr. DonnaOriowo. OR you can visit her on the interwebs at DonnaOriowo.com. OR if you are a dope Black woman join the Free, Fabulous, and F*cked community on Facebook.
The Darker the Berry: Exploring Power, Identity, and Humility
Format: Interactive Workshop
Virtual or in-person
This program is perfect for:
- Mental health practitioners
- Sexuality professionals and educators
- Organizations ready to work on Diversity Equity and Inclusion
The audience will be able to:
- Identity 3 reasons it is important for racial identity focused work
- identify...
Cocoa Butter & Hair Grease
Format: _ minute [keynote, workshop, breakout, etc..]
This program is perfect for Black womxn who want to:
- Foster radical self love.
- Honor the beautiful variety of black skin and hair.
- Unlearn unhealthy white supremacist narratives related to your skin and hair.
The audience will leave with:
- knowledge on how colorism and texturism impact...
C.U.R.L.S. Talk (Conversations Understanding Relationships Love and Sex)
Format: 60-90 minute interactive workshop
This program is perfect for:
- Black people and people of color who have questioned the color of their skin and hair texture to have REAL conversations about it.
The audience will leave with:
- Understanding on how colorism and texturism impact relationships, love, and sex.
- Knowledge on how traumas and beauty narratives...
Snatching Edges: Why Black Hair Matters
Format: 90 minute workshop/training
This program is perfect for:
- Mental Health Professionals who are ready to understand how colorism and texturism impact mental health
- Sexuality educators and therapists ready to understand how colorism and texturism impact sexuality
The audience will leave with:
- Identify 3 ways Black women's sexuality is impacted by hair...
The 5 Senses of Self-Care
Format: 60-120minute workshop
This program is perfect for:
- Organizations who want to support their staff in taking better care of themselves while reducing turnover
- Activists whose self-care is often compromised to make change
The audience will leave with:
- Identify and practice 5 ways to engage in self care using one or more of the 5...
Sex Talk: Having Sexual Health Talks With Ease
Format: _ minute [keynote, workshop, breakout, etc..]
This program is perfect for:
- Mental health practitioners who want to better understand and integrate sexuality talks into their practice
- Parents who want to learn to better speak with their children about sex and sexuality
- Teachers and school staff who are often the front lines of awkward questions who want to be better equipped to address things as...
Make Me Feel Good: Drugs, Sex, and Mental Health
Format: 60minute Keynote
This program is perfect for:
- Organizations who focus on substance abuse treatment who are looking to expand related concerns
- substance abuse providers, recovery providers, medical and behavioral health providers, social workers, nurses,state people
The audience will leave with the ability to:
- Discuss the important of sex(uality) in...
Melanin Poppin’: Colorblind Politics Plaguing Sexuality Education
Format: 60 minute keynote
This program is perfect for:
- Sex educators
- Mental health professionals
- Women's organizations
- Black focused organizations
The audience will leave with:
- identify 3 reasons why it’s important to have race/ethnicity inclusive sexual health
- Identify 1 blind spot to be culturally relevant in sexual health and...
