ckm.
Cart 0

 

 
carrie%2Bkholi-murchison.jpeg

"Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well? … cause wholeness is no trifling matter."

- Toni cade bambara, the salt eaters


carrie kholi murchison

Hi! I’m Dr. Kholi Murchison.
(pronunciation • co-lee, mur-chi-son)
(she • her • Kholi)

I’m a femme-presenting nonbinary embodied movement practitioner, writer, and diviner of Black queer magic, who's been defining brands and gathering and growing communities through inclusive, communal actualization for almost 20 years.

I’m deeply invested in movement work - our life-long assignment of individual, social, and systemic change.

I spend parts of my days as the Director of Communications at Borealis Philanthropy, where I’m responsible for developing and leading strategic communications work to amplify our collaborative justice-focused funds. 

I’m also Co-founder of think tank and production company, HOLI. Brands; Partner at Oratory Glory; Farmer at our family’s Black and indigenous-owned homestead, Celie & Squeak; and Creator of Hella Black Brunch

As a waymaker, I serve values-led, people-purposed brands and creatives. My work is guided by my time spent in Wake Forest’s MDiv program; my BA and Ph.D. from Hampton and Rutgers Universities; my embodiment training, entrepreneurship, advocacy and my chosen ancestor Toni Cade Bambara's queerly uncomplicated question: “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?”


The kind of change we are after is cellular as well as institutional, is personal and intimate, is collective as well as cultural.

— Prentis hemphill


let’s grow

TOGETHER.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people.
To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely.

— Amiri Baraka

Are you an individual, brand, or organization looking to:

  • Bring your next big community facing experience or idea to life?

  • Create a dynamic strategy for a personal or professional transition?

  • Effectively establish, communicate, and implement transformative change management?

LET’S CHAT ABOUT YOUR PROJECT BELOW.

(SEE WHAT PAST COLLABORATORS HAVE TO SAY.)