Atima Omara is the founder and principal strategist for Omara Strategy Group—a consulting firm working at the intersection of electoral politics and issue advocacy with progressive candidates and organizations. She has appeared frequently on television and a number of publications including MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and NPR. Atima is an award-winning leader, strategist and advocate who has worked as staff for many Democratic federal, state, and local political campaigns across the country as well as led local, state, and national campaigns and organizations focusing on reproductive rights and justice, labor, voting rights, and criminal justice reform. Atima was elected and has served as President of the Young Democrats of America (YDA), the first Black person to do so in its history, and is currently one Virginia’s elected representatives to the Democratic National Committee (DNC).