​Chris “ The Health Hippie” Omni, MPH
​Post COVID Curriculum Vitae

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Brief Bio

Chris Omni is an eco-spiritualist, two-timeTEDx speaker, three-time First Place 3-MT (3-Minute Thesis) Winner, Black womxn's health researcher, published author, documentary filmmaker, international presenter and nature writer, community mobilizer, and former health motivation columnist. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Services and two master’s degrees - Public Health and Liberal Arts. Chris is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University where she is researching Black Joy in Green Spaces through the methodologies of auto-ethnography, narrative inquiry, photo-elicitation, and nomadic inquiry. Most recently, Chris’s TEDx Talk, “Granny’s Garden: How to Grow Black Joy,” featured the first, public, poetic theorizing of Black Joy!

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Chris deeply values the unapologetic use of her voice and agency to speak life, love, and Light to all people with a particular emphasis on Black people. She views her body as a vessel that has not only delivered life but receives life in the form of lessons and abilities from the ancestors. As others have stated, “Chris Omni is a whole vibe!”

Education
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Florida State University
Art Education
Doctoral Candidate
Fall 2020 - Spring 2023

My Vinyasa Practice
Mindfulness Coach
TBD

Community Involvement
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LeMoyne Art Museum
S.H.E.A. Workshop Facilitation
(Slow Healing & Earth Awareness)
Tallahassee, FL.
June 2022

Florida State University
Toni Morrison’s Sustaining Community
Eco-literacy Training
Tallahassee, FL.
May 2022

The Grove Museum
S.H.E.A. Walk Workshop Facilitation
Tallahassee, FL.
April 2022

Bailey’s Learning Academy and Art Collective
Intention Stone Workshop Facilitation 
Gainesville, FL.
April  2022

Elsewhere Museum
Breathwork Workshop Facilitation
Greensboro, NC.
September, 2021

Halisi Africa’s Joyteenth Celebration
Intention Stone Workshop Facilitation
Tallahassee, FL.
June 2021

Mickee Faust Club
F.L.Y. 101 (First Love Yourself) Workshop Facilitation
Tallahassee, FL.
​December 2020

NIA Project
Black Women Get Fit
Pre-Conference Presenter and Workshop Facilitation
​Kansas City MO
October 2020 & 2021

Publications
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Photosynthe-SIS: A Green Love Letter to Black Women
Urban Tree Festival
London, United Kingdom
Top 24 Nature Poets

​Nature as a Site of Radical Self-Restoration
Walking Art Encounters
Prespa, Greece
​In publication 

“Divorcing the Dominant Black Baptist Narrative”
Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels Anthology
Black Lawrence Press
​in publication 

Presentations 
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#CapeBreak: Inviting Black Women to Drop the Metaphorical Cape Associated with Being the Strong Black Woman

• National Organization of Art and Health (NOAH)
• Upswell Summit

Nature as a Site of Radical Self-Restoration

• Walking Art Encounters In Prespa, Greece
• Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry International Conference​

Black Butterflyz: A Physical Activity Intervention for Black Women

• ​Kansas Department of Health and Environment

TEDx

• TEDx FSU: Granny’s Garden: Growing Black Joy
• TEDx KU: Nature as a Site of Radical Self-restoration

Blacktivate Joy

• Florida State University’s 3MT (First Place)
• University of Central Florida (Second Place)
• Southern Conference of Graduate Schools (semi-finalist) ​

​Florida State University

• Social Justice Symposium

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University of Arizona

• Emerging Conversations

Installations

Films

Isolation, Invitation, Inclusion
Elsewhere Museum
Greensboro, N.C.
Fall 2021

Being, Becoming, Growing 
Elsewhere Museum
Greensboro, N.C.
Fall 2021

Propagating Joy: The Three Wishes Series
LeMoyne Art Museum
Tallahassee, FL.
June 2022

T.J. Collections: Collecting Stories of True Joy
Screened at the Denton Black Film Festival
January 2022
Cinematography credit: Create Uplift

Isolation, Invitation, Inclusion 
Florida State University’s WJB Gallery
Fall 2021
Cinematography credit: Jordan