Kearie Daniel

Creator & Writer. Storyteller. Non-Profit Leader.Speaker

Kearie Daniel is a senior non-profit leader, community advocate, communications strategist, writer, and thought leader dedicated to prioritizing,archiving and supporting the experiences of Black women, girls and all Black communities.

CREATOR AND WRITER

Kearie Daniel is a writer and storyteller whose work lives at the intersection of motherhood, identity, and systemic change. With a background in Mass Communications, a minor in Women’s Studies, and a Master’s in Broadcast Journalism, Kearie brings depth, clarity, and purpose to every word she writes.

From Today’s Parent to Chatelaine, Flare, and CBC Parents, her essays don’t just add to conversations around race, parenting, and belonging in Canada, they help shape them. Her writing captures what many feel but can’t always express, bridging personal experience with structural analysis and collective urgency.

Non-Profit Builder & Leader

Kearie Daniel is a nonprofit builder, leader and strategist whose work centres Black communities, systems transformation, and justice. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Black Women’s Institute for Health, a national organization addressing the health and well-being of Black women and girls in Canada through data, advocacy, and community-led care.
She is the co-founder of Parents of Black Children. Ideating the organization and serving as it’s inaugural Executive Director and CEO from inception to September 2024. Kearie grew the organization from the ground up into a $1.2 million advocacy organization. Under her leadership, PoBC became a leading voice confronting anti-Black racism in education, driving policy change, supporting families, and holding institutions accountable.
Kearie is also the creator of Woke Mommy Chatter, a nonprofit platform launched in 2016 that centres Black motherhood through storytelling, healing, and cultural production. Through Woke Mommy Chatter, she has built programs, podcasts, publishing initiatives, and wellness spaces that honour the experiences and leadership of Black mothers and caregivers.
With over two decades of experience across public health, child welfare, and community-driven nonprofit work, Kearie brings deep expertise in building equity-centred programs, mobilizing grassroots advocacy, and scaling organizations rooted in care and cultural relevance. Her work is guided by a commitment to anti-Black racism frameworks, trauma-informed practice, and the belief that when Black women and families are well, communities thrive.

Communicator and Strategist

Kearie Daniel is a seasoned communications strategist and leader who has excelled in deploying inclusive communication strategies across multiple sectors. Her career is distinguished by her adeptness at centering equitable solutions within all levels of communications planning and execution. With a deep understanding of how strategic communications can drive systemic change, Kearie has been at the forefront of numerous transformative initiatives.

Speaker

Kearie is a recognized and respected speaker and panelist, frequently invited to contribute her insights on various platforms, covering a broad range of topics including:

Black Motherhood
Anti-Racist Parenting
Parent Engagement
Non-Profit Leadership
Equitable and Inclusive Communications
Systems Leadership and Change Management
Child-Welfare systems navigation

Get in touch!

connect@keariedaniel.com

Non-Profit Leadership

Kearie Daniel is the Founder and Executive Director of the Black Women’s Institute for Health (BWIH), a national non-profit committed to the health and survival of Black women and girls across Canada. BWIH addresses systemic inequities across all social determinants of health—mental health, employment, housing, education, and healthcare—and mobilizes data and lived experience to push for real, tangible change in policy and legislation. Under Kearie’s leadership, BWIH launched Voices Unheard, the first-ever national survey focused exclusively on the health outcomes and lived realities of Black women in Canada. This groundbreaking initiative is already shifting narratives, uncovering critical gaps in Canada’s health systems, and fuelling community-led advocacy.

Prior to founding BWIH, Kearie was the very first Executive Director and co-founder of Parents of Black Children (PoBC), where she shepherded the organization from a grassroots idea into a $1.2 million non-profit in under five years. Leveraging her systems navigation experience from Cancer Care Ontario, Kearie spearheaded PoBC’s direct support model, designed to provide hands-on education system navigation for Black families. Her vision transformed the support landscape for Black parents, embedding longstanding community advocacy into concrete institutional change. Kearie also led the creation of Omo Africentric Virtual Campus, Canada’s first Africentric online learning environment, and initiated the development of Ontario’s first Anti-Black Racism in Education Framework—a policy tool that will guide school boards in effectively supporting Black students and their families.

Through WMC Motherhood (Woke Mommy Chatter), Kearie continues to elevate Black mothers’ voices through storytelling, support, advocacy, and cultural production. What began as a blog and podcast has grown into a platform focused on supporting caregivers, prioritizing access to food and parenting capacity supports, through the Africentric Parenting Collaborative.

WMC has also expanded into WMC Productions and WMC Publishing—social enterprises that offer both a creative outlet and professional development opportunities for Black mothers and women to share their stories, gain new skills, and build sustainable careers in media and publishing.

A systems thinker with a deep commitment to equity and social justice, Kearie also supports other non-profit leaders in embedding anti-oppression frameworks within their organizations. She offers coaching and strategic workshops on equitable pay, inclusive leadership, and sustainable organizational growth grounded in community accountability.