Annahid is the CEO of Anima Leadership, a socially innovative company offering a compassionate approach to racial justice efforts. She’s an international inclusion leader, author, and speaker with over 25 years of experience working in the trenches toward social change in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. She has coached thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations and knows the heartbeat of DEIB change patterns like the back of her hand.

Annahid started out organizing national campaigns scaling out widespread change but now focuses on shifting consciousness, one conversation, one compelling story at a time.  She’s the author of “Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World” (April 2023) and the best-selling memoir “Breaking the Ocean: Race, Rebellion and Reconciliation” (2019).

A leading voice on race, trauma, and immigration, she also hosts her own podcast, Soundwaves of Belonging, featuring intimate and irreverent conversations with fellow bridge builders. Having grown up in three different countries—Iran, England and Canada—on three different continents, Annahid is a citizen of the world, a lover of stories and a truth speaker for a more just future. For more about Annahid.