About Us

AMANI is a pilot after-school mentorship program founded in San Diego, California in 2022, designed to provide academic and creative support to Black students attending predominantly white/minority Black elementary schools through mentorship from Black college students.

Based on the Swahili word for peace and tranquility and the five key tenets of: 

Affirming

Mentoring

Actualizing

Nurturing

Imagining a limitless future for young Black scholars. 

The A.M.A.N.I. Project is based on an empowering mentorship model which we define as:

culturally centered

linguistically affirming 

trauma-informed 

autonomy supportive