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Chama St. Louis (SHE, HER)

Chama St. Louis is the Organizing & Field Director based in Peoria, Illinois. She’s fueled by her passion to economically empower black people. She’s also passionate about educating her people about how their civic engagement or lack thereof directly impacts their outcomes, as well as holding decision makers accountable to the communities they serve.

If you open the dictionary and look up “good trouble” you’ll see a picture of Chama flashing her pearly whites. She started her civic engagement work at the age of 18 and has spent most of her life dedicated to Black empowerment. She was previously the Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce, and then became President and Chairwoman of the Peoria Black Chamber of Commerce before transitioning into the community organizing space. Chama worked as the Central Illinois Coalition Organizer before finding her home at the National Black Worker Center.

As the Organizing & Field Director, Chama has plans to develop movement and field strategies to mobilize Black workers across the country to fight back against racism and discrimination in the workplace. Her plan is to ensure that the NBWC organizing and field department is the agenda driver of the Black worker perspective in the racial, social and worker justice ecosystem.

Chama is an organizer by day and businesswoman by night. She is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master Life Coach Professional with a virtual practice, and when she’s not fighting for equity, she is dedicated to helping individuals cultivate a strong sense of self-awareness and harness the powers of their own minds to achieve profound and lasting change.

She also has a viral TikTok account that coincides with her business, with over 100k followers.

She enjoys spending her free time with her children Ryann, Eliana and Pharaoh and can be found binge watching Netflix with her favorite snacks on the weekends with her partner.

Chama lives by the motto “it gets greater, later” and it serves as a reminder to stay the course, be diligent, and know that our work is not in vain.

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