Namibia Donadio-Meija

Cantor | Weaver | Cultural Strategist

Role: I serve as Co-Executive Director of New Seneca Village, stewarding relationships, strategy, and systems that allow the Village’s restorative vision to take root and grow. My role centers on weaving people, resources, and story into coherence — ensuring that our values are reflected not only in what we offer, but in how we operate.

I focus on cultivating aligned partnerships, strengthening organizational infrastructure, and shaping narratives that help others recognize themselves in the future we are building together.

Namibia Donadio-Mejia is a Cantor, Weaver, and Cultural Strategist whose work lives at the intersection of storytelling, community care, and systems design. With a background in community-engaged theater, cultural organizing, and organizational leadership, she has spent over a decade creating spaces where people can remember who they are — individually and collectively.

Her work spans nonprofit leadership, facilitation, and consulting through her practice, Libélula Visions, where she supports conscious creatives and mission-driven organizations in building sustainable, values-aligned structures. Namibia is known for her ability to translate vision into practice: shaping narratives, designing relational systems, and holding complex processes with clarity and compassion.

Rooted in ancestral memory and guided by a deep commitment to interexistence, her approach honors both the seen and unseen labor required to build belonging. At the heart of her work is an attention to tuning and harmonics — listening for what is out of resonance and helping people, teams, and institutions find their natural rhythm again. At New Seneca Village, she helps steward the Village as a living ecosystem — one that restores people to themselves and equips them to carry that restoration back into the world.

Get to Know Namibia

What questions are enlivening you in this season?

How can I infuse talking about and being with our Life Force/ Source in every situation?

What is my unique role in this changing paradigm?

Whose line is it, anyway?

What inspired you to begin work in this restoration and transformation space?

I realized after years in the activist, social justice, education space that we were repeating many of the same toxic practices that we were looking to transform. And that some of this was due to a framework that did not acknowledge the fullness of our human understanding. After my spiritual quest brought me to a new way of operating in the world, I realized this had to be placed at the forefront of all paths to be truly free.

What personal practices ground you when doing restorative work?

I ground myself through prayer, movement, time in nature, and intentional listening. I pay close attention to my body as a source of guidance, allowing rhythm and breath to inform my pacing. Creative practices — singing, lucid dreaming, and ritual — help me stay connected to lineage and meaning. These practices remind me to move with humility, clarity, and trust in the unfolding. I also restore by going to the water, talking to the water, mimicking and immersing in the water.. drinking water... singing songs about water! (The Waves We Give, Beautiful Chorus) Optimizing my water (saving for a ionizing water bottle). Movement for me means lots of dancing, anywhere, and also strengthing my vessel in the gym and through practicing defense arts like Kali, Muy Thai and other forms of sacred arts.

How do you imagine the future once our restorative vision is realized?

I envision a future where restoration is not an exception, but a practiced way of living. Where people have access to spaces that help them recalibrate, remember their dignity, and reconnect to land, lineage, and purpose. In this future, the Village is both a physical sanctuary and a portable wisdom — something people experience deeply and then carry home into their families, communities, and work. In this earth ship, go-to place, healing becomes communal, generative, and shared.

Education

M.A., Educational Theatre: New York University

B.A., History: Rutgers University

Experience

Founder & CEO: Libélula Visions

Co-Founder & Executive Director: ARTIS Love & Action

Interim Program Director: Mastani Holistic Center

Co-Director: Inheritance Theater Project (Local Process)

Director & Teaching Artist: Mile Square Theatre

Practitioner

Reiki Level I & II

Trauma-informed facilitation

Theater of the Oppressed

Quantum Healing

Boards & Fellowships

HOPE Binational Public Policy Fellow

AANAPISI Fellow

HATCH Global Fellow