Courtney Omega

Advocate.Teacher.Writer.Believer

Creating. Cultivating. Coordinating. Courtney Omega has dedicated her life to servicing and strengthening inner community neighborhoods in a multitude of capacities. Following college at Florida A&M University and Florida State University, where she was the first female editor in chief to promise and print four issues of the campus magazine JOURNEY, she moved to Philadelphia where she worked with the National School and Community Corps as an English tutor and dance team sponsor/ choreographer. She went on to form a community dance troupe, Detour and organize YMCA and Boys and Girls Club events for her remaining years there. Journalism and public relations are her lifelong passion and she has often found avenues in which to empower communities by articulating thoughts, capturing experiences with dignity and encouraging narrative control. Well read and traveled, she boldly shares she has lived in more places since college than she has her entire life prior some notables include Arizona, Charlotte and ina. She currently resides in the Historical Coconut Grove where she coordinates and publishes the Community informational Coconut Grove Roots Newsletter. It is the only online Grove publication that publishes online weekly and is still delivered to homes. She also provides direct services for families through her LLC, Community Mobilizing Group. Omega also writes faith based and cultural curriculum for programming through her Golden and Golden Gates Foundation, LLC which is the namesake in honor of her grandmother Mayor Yvonne Scarlett Golden and mother Rosalyn Golden. She is a published author (Be Without You, 2009) and conscious and social cultural enthusiast.