A Creative Ecosystem
Bringing intention, purpose, and precision into the spaces where people work, gather, and grow, Nia Weaving LLC is a purpose-driven organization working along three pathways.
Rooted in the Detroit side of Wawiiyaatanong, Nia Weaving is a creative studio and design consultancy, solidarity network, and embodiment space threading intention and purpose into movements, moments, and everyday environments.
Our work flows between creation, cultivation, and convening. Through Tigerseye Studio, we design experiences across organizational systems, relational coaching, and public learning—offering facilitation, strategic consulting, 1:1 coaching containers, and skill-based workshops. Through the Jasmine Path Network, we practice solidarity by connecting trusted practitioners to meaningful work across the Midwest and the South, and exploring place-based ways of moving through cities with care and intention. And through Monarch Boulevard, our Detroit embodiment space, we explore the practice of weaving intention through gatherings, learning experiences, and collaborative projects, expressed in part through stewardship of a monarch butterfly waystation, pollinator garden, and indoor plant sanctuary.
At its heart, Nia Weaving is about creating spaces—physical, digital, and relational—where intention, collective care, and integrity meet.
Meet the Founder
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Namira Islam (also known as Namira Islam Anani) is a descendant of liberation fighters from Bengal and the eldest daughter of genocide survivors and community builders. She integrates the precision of a lawyer, the imagination of a graphic designer, and the hope of a gardener in her work in human rights education, experience design, and liberatory coaching. She is the founder and CEO of Nia Weaving, a creative studio and design ecosystem that threads intention into movements, moments, and environments.
Rooted in the Detroit side of Wawiiyaatanong, Namira brings a background in public interest law, visual storytelling, faith-based organizing, and disability justice. Her work is informed by drafting international law in The Hague, providing legal aid during the Flint Water Crisis, co-founding a nonprofit via Twitter, managing communications for an award-winning restaurant, leading fellowships for hundreds of changemakers, and experiencing fifteen years of social impact leadership while navigating chronic pain. Guided by a philosophy of opening narrow doors and widening them for others, she centers creativity, cultural knowledge, and collective healing to interrupt systems of dehumanization and support sustainable futures for all living beings.
Namira has designed and fundraised for meaningful causes since 2007. She is a certified coach through Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation and an alumna of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University College of Law. She received the University of Michigan’s Tapestry Award for intercultural leadership in 2010 and the El-Hibri Foundation’s Young Leader Award for her work in American Muslim communities in 2016. Her writing has appeared in academic journals as well as popular media, and she has delivered lectures and workshops nationally and internationally, including at Harvard Divinity School and the Minidoka Pilgrimage. Through trainings, leadership development programs, and speaking engagements, she has directly reached at least 25,000 people in cities across the United States.
Learn more about Namira and engage with her work here.
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What does Nia Weaving mean? Read more about 6 months of practicing nia weaving on Medium here.
Featured Pathway Partners
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Asandi Conner
CONSULTANT / TIGERSEYE STUDIO
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Shayla Zimmerman
COLLABORATOR / JASMINE PATH NETWORK
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Rhiannon Chester-Bey
CONSULTANT / TIGERSEYE STUDIO
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Hazel Gomez
COLLABORATOR / JASMINE PATH NETWORK
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Janae L. Wilson
CONSULTANT / TIGERSEYE STUDIO
Featured Organizational Partners
Weaving past, present, and future on rivers (2023)
Thank you to artist Adriana Contreras Correal.“Relationships are built at the speed of trust… and movements are built at the speed of relationships.”
Mama Lila Cabbil