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Nubian OmiSayade Sun is a Black, Social Work Educator-Scholar, Consultant, and Spirit-Filled Practitioner based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Early Life and Education
Sun was born in Memphis, Tennessee and was raised in the South Memphis and Whitehaven areas.


 * Parents
 * Uncles
 * Grandparents
 * Black Catholic Family/ COGIC
 * Music/ Creative Family
 * Haitian- Paternal
 * Gullah-Geechie- Maternal

Sun earned her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the University of Tennessee- Chattanooga and received her Master’s degree in Social Work- Community Welfare Management from the University of Tennessee- Knoxville (Nashville Campus). She obtained her doctorate degree in Social Work Policy, Planning, and Administration from the Whitney M. Young Jr., School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University.

Career
Sun is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work at [Sacred Heart University School of Social Work], CEO/ Founder of Nubian Sun Consulting, LLC, and CEO/ Founder of the Center for Resilient, Individuals, Families and Communities. Her social work practice, andragogy, and scholarship interests include the following: the Afrocentric Perspective in Andragogy and Praxis, Incarceration/Reentry- Women and Girls, Healing and Creative Arts in Social Work, and Black Women and Healing-Informed Leadership. She travels between the worlds of theater, culinary arts, West African dance and drumming, visual/abstract art, healing arts, and music. As a Spirit-Filled Practitioner, she uses a plethora of healing methods of West African, American South, and Eastern influences in helping others to help themselves.

Creative
1) Mama Ferguson/ Baba John/ Candice and John Washington Constellations and natural root designs of the (abstract) environment create foundations for her artwork. Her pieces start from the universe and then flow through her body, out her fingertips, therefore, making her its interpreter. Her art forms itself on its “called” surface. When the message is complete, it’s then when she stands back to understand it. Within her artwork, one may find prophetic messages, stories, connections, feelings, dreams, and beginnings. As an artist, she strives for divine understanding and openness as she continues to share this experience with others, encouraging them to listen to their messages and divine rite. She describes the process of creating this work as starting “from the universe, and then flowing through my body and out of my fingertips.” Born to a family of artists, she cites Uncle David Green as her greatest inspiration,  as they frequently communicate about their visions and messages from the universe, which transform themselves into artwork.
 * inspiration and how the artist was born

Exhibitions

 * Marginalized Voices-Traumatic Brain Injury Organization- Nashville, TN 2007
 * Sweet Tea- Untited Artist Group- Nashville, TN 2008
 * Barely Legal- Unitilted Artist Group- Nashville, TN 2009
 * Abstracka- Plowhaus Artist Co-op- Nashville, TN 2009
 * Art That Speaks-Donelson Senior Center for the Arts-Nashville, TN 2009
 * A Sense of Wonder-Gallery at First Church Unity-Nashville, TN 2009
 * St. Augustine Church Wine Tasting/ Fundraiser- Memphis, TN 2010
 * I've been Framed- Untitled Artist Group, Nashville, TN 2010
 * Down To Earth- Private Show, Nashville, TN 2010
 * Frozen Stiff- Untitled Artist Group-Nashville, TN 2010
 * The Things That We Carry-Private Show- Nashville, TN 2010
 * Would You Harbor Me?: A Digital Experience-Blog Talk Radio/YouTube 2011
 * Spring Art Show- Donelson Senior Center for the Arts-Nashville, TN 2011
 * Women's Work 2011 Festival of Performing and Visual Arts-Nashville, TN 2011
 * Afri-Galactic Sanctity Private Show- Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA 2014
 * Sexual Assault Awareness Week Pop-Up Show- Ffoya House, Bowling Green, KY 2015
 * St. Diane of Seventh Ward. Exhibited at the “Pre-Sister”, Tulane Newcomb Art Gallery New Orleans, LA 2019

Scholarly Works
Women in Art: Dr. Nubian Sun, Artivist, Les Femmes Folles

Twin Towers- Artwork. The New Social Worker

I Been Prepared

Motherhood as Immortality

A Newsletter for the Alliance for Tennessee Children of Prisoners: Eradicating Stigma by Promoting Change

Correction Fluid: Uncovering Multiple Reproductive Health Injustices Towards Women of the American Correctional System

The Relevancy of Black Feminism

Nguzo Saba as a Framework for Mentoring Black Female Students at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs)

E' truth Mouth: Exploring Cultural Linguistic Self-Efficacy Among Gullah Speaking People of Charleston, SC

An Assessment of the #Freeblackmamasfellowship Program, 2019. National Bail Out

. Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work.

Religion
Sun is an Iyaloricha in the Lucumi Tradition.