About Us
About Atima
Strategist. Advocate. Leader.
Atima Omara is Founder and Chief Strategist of the award winning Omara Strategy Group, a political and advocacy consulting firm for progressive candidates, organizations, and projects. Omara Strategy Group provides training, coaching and voter engagement services with a focus on women, people of color, LGBTQ+ and other folks from historically underrepresented communities in the political process to win campaigns while building a progressive reflective democracy. She is a strategist, organizer and advocate, with close to 20 years in national politics focuses on training and innovative strategies that win elections, inform policy, and build a more reflective democracy
Atima is also a trailblazer in Democratic politics. In 2013 she was nationally elected President of the Young Democrats of America (YDA), the nation’s largest partisan youth organization where she was also the organization’s first Black President in its 80+ year history which gave her seat on the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The Story
For the American born daughter of two immigrants to become a multiple award winning entrepreneur, political strategist, advocate, leader, and speaker in politics, government, non-profits, and business did not come without challenges for Atima.
Like many Black women and other women of color she encountered everything from microaggressions to explicit racism, sexism, and xenophobia in life, school, and the workplace. She processed it like many of her generation would initially, thinking if only she worked “twice as hard”, perhaps her managers would not cut her off in meetings, refuse to give her a raise, or undermine and question her leadership. She finally realized that there was no way to be a more “palatable” version of herself, that would be acceptable to others without destroying the person she fundamentally was. After 2020, she heard from other women of color friends and colleagues who had similar experiences and frustrations and out of this experience Embracing Your Voice was born.
Why Choose Us
Choosing Us for Your Listening Pleasure
If you’ve attended entrepreneur and/or professional development workshops or conferences but still come away feeling as if there were things missing related to your personal and professional experiences this is the podcast for you. We center women of color in discussions about navigating the workplace, building careers, across multiple industries and ways to succeed and deal with challenges and systemic biases while doing so.
Since 2020 in particular there has been a lot of talk especially in the last few years about the experience of women of color at work and in society. Women of color are:
only 6% of C suite leadership in America’s largest companies.
They are 9.2% of the Members of Congress.
The gender wage gap is even wider for women of color than it is for white women.
Multiple studies have indicated that the obstacles women of color face in the workplace like limited access to mentors, exclusion from elite networks, and wage gaps often push us to find alternatives to the traditional workforce like entrepreneurship.
Most Recent Topics
• Toxic Workplaces (and healing from them)
• Imposter Syndrome
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Mentorship & Promotions
• Entrepreneurship
• Being a Manager As A Woman of Color
• Women’s Political Representation
• Women’s Leadership
Our Voice
Discover the voices Shaping Change
Tune in to Embracing Your Voice, where women in politics share insights, stories, and strategies for making an impact. Get inspired, stay informed, and join the conversation. Listen to the latest episodes now and empower your journey in being unabashedly yourself in the political landscape.