Presentations, Programs, and Services
Consultation, Guest Lecture, Presenter, Interview
"We Need H.E.L.P." for Medical and Health Academic Programs, Organizations, and Facilities
"We Need H.E.L.P." for Medical and Health Academic Programs, Organizations, and Facilities
Contact Kimya Nuru Dennis for details, price, and scheduling.
An introduction to begin the first step in the process of measurable and lasting improvements in communities, organizations, and schools.
"We Need H.E.L.P." for Medical and Health Academic Programs, Organizations, and Facilities
"We Need H.E.L.P." for Medical and Health Academic Programs, Organizations, and Facilities
"We Need H.E.L.P." for Medical and Health Academic Programs, Organizations, and Facilities
2 hours
Contact Kimya Nuru Dennis for details, price, and scheduling.
Price is per 5 pre-registered attendees.
Minimum of 5 pre-registrants required.
We Need H.E.L.P. qualifies for CEU and is designed for medical and health community advocates, medical and health students, and medical and health professionals.
Changes to Curriculum, Library Materials, Course Materials, and Academic Assessments
Changes to Curriculum, Library Materials, Course Materials, and Academic Assessments
Changes to Curriculum, Library Materials, Course Materials, and Academic Assessments
Contact Kimya Nuru Dennis for details, price, and scheduling.
Teaching families and communities to develop pedagogy, curriculum, course materials, library content, and 6-month or annual evaluations and assessments.
"Get Work Done" Workshops
Changes to Curriculum, Library Materials, Course Materials, and Academic Assessments
Changes to Curriculum, Library Materials, Course Materials, and Academic Assessments
6 hours: One day or three two-hour sessions
Contact Kimya Nuru Dennis for details, price, and scheduling.
Begin with a plan, end with a plan, and schedule follow-up evaluations and assessments.
Communities, organizations, K-12 decision makers, and college decision makers ready to change policies, practices, interactions, and 6-month or annual evaluations and assessments.
Meet Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis
Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis, Ph.D. is a community advocate, sociologist and criminologist, professor, and researcher.
Dr. Dennis reaches local, national, and global collectives to help change and consistently evaluate the following:
- Community health equity
- Community-patient advocacy
- Mental health
- Disabilities
- Epilepsy
- Suicide
- Substance use
- Medical and health academic programs, organizations, and facilities: Demographic and cultural variance in health conditions, access to health services, and health outcomes.
- Developing cultural equity and productivity in trainings, policies, and practices for crisis de-escalation first responders and law enforcement representatives.
- Helping underserved people to read and learn outside of schools, and to contribute to developing curriculum, course materials, pedagogy-teaching, and learning.
- Contributing to reducing victimization, violent crime, and property crime within and across cultures and collectives of people.
Dr. Dennis's Health-Education-Economics work is local, national, and global collaborative.
Born and raised in the city of Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Dennis earned a bachelor's and a master's in Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Dennis lived in North Carolina for 17 years for the doctorate and as faculty.
Dr. Dennis currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Check out the Merch!
Examples of Recordings
2023, "Colors of Crime ft. Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis," The Simply King Podcast
2023, “Talking Life Honestly: Suicide in the Black Community,” Honestly Helen Podcast
2022, Afrikans with Epilepsy
July 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-RpQq30TA0&t=4s
October 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUl-E98s88&t=43s
2022, “Talking Power and Black Mental Health with Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis,” That One Podcast!
2022, “The Stigma behind Men’s Mental Health,” Born In Trouble
2022, “The Unique Challenges of Being Black and Childfree,” The Overpopulation Podcast, Population Balance
2021, “Black and Childfree, Featuring Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis,” The Simply King Podcast
2021, "Black mental health and Black suicide," The Squash Podcast
2021, “Mental health within the Black Community,” Honestly Helen Podcast
2021, "K-12, College, & University Curriculum with Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis,” GEMS with Genesis Amaris Kemp
More Examples of Recordings
October 2025, “Women explain how they decided whether to have kids,” NPR Series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World, Here & Now, Robin Young, NPR
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/10/29/small-families
March 2025, "Childfree Education with Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis," Choose the Bear by Kat Calvin
2022, “Change is Not a Part-Time Job with Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis,” Time for Teachership
https://www.lindsaybethlyons.com/blog/change-is-not-a-part-time-job-with-dr-kimya-nuru-dennis
May 2018, “Suicides across Cultures,” The Matt Townsend Show, BYU Radio
http://www.byuradio.org/episode/b7c00a8d-1815-4454-b700-359b7afd4c0d?playhead=752&autoplay=true
March 2018, “Mental Health and Minority Communities,” All Sides with Ann Fisher, WOSU-NPR
http://radio.wosu.org/post/mental-health-and-minority-communities
March 2018, “Seeing Suicide Through A Non-White Lens,” Straight Fruit: 89.3 WFPL
http://wfpl.org/strange-fruit-seeing-suicide-through-a-non-white-lens/
February 2018, “Demographic and Cultural Variance in Suicide and Mental Health,” All Sides with Ann Fisher, WOSU-NPR
http://radio.wosu.org/post/wellness-wednesday-exercise-science-and-suicide-demographics
http://radio.wosu.org/programs/all-sides-ann-fisher#stream/0
2018, Suicide and Black America, No Jargon, Scholars Strategy Network
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/scholars-strategy/episode-145-suicide-and-iawhxXnM354/
