Meet AJahi Adams

Director of Development

Previous to joining Wholesome Wave, AJahi Nicole Adams became passionate about food, sustainable farming and access to healthy food options as a basic human right for all people while working as a Development Officer at Millennium Promise in partnership with The United Nations and the Earth Institute on the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Sahara Africa. Her work with this company compelled her to volunteer to revamp school lunch programs in her local community schools. Professionally, AJahi cultivated a career of creating alliances between art and social causes.Over the years, she was fortunate to sharpen her business acumen while working with organizations like Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS on insider Broadway productions including Gypsy of the Year, the Easter Bonnet Competition, and the Fire Island Dance Festival. In 1999, she was published in "Charting Your Course: A life-Long Guide to Health and Compassion", along with cultural icons such as Jane Anderson. Her work with luminaries like Sarah Jones, Steve Colman and Reba McIntyre allowed AJahi to support artists equally passionate about using one’s talent and skill-set to improve the human condition. Most recently, AJahi was the Director of Development and Communications for Career Transition For Dancers. AJahi holds a degree from Adelphi University in Sociology.

Q: What food smell brings you instantly back to childhood?
A: Raw sweet yams and then of course baked yams

Q: What is your first food memory?
A: Two memories come to mind. First, my grandmother peeling yams and giving me a slice of raw yam because I was pestering her and the other is snapping beans for my great grandmother. Ahh the smell of green beans

Q: If I came to your house for supper tonight, what would you make me?
A: Spinach and mushroom quiche or seared duck with slow-roasted cauliflower

Q: What is your perfect idea of happiness?
A: Cooking with my friends

Q: What is your greatest fear?
A: Never make a difference with my talents

Q: What historical figure do you most identify with?
A: Well, I don't have a historical one but fictionally it would be Clair Huxtable but if I pressed I admire Josephine Baker and Dorothy Dandridge

Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: My heroes are not world famous, but do great things in the world to make it better than it was before

Q: What do you consider your greatest achievement?
A: My greatest achievement has yet to be done

Q: What is your most treasured possession?
A: My capacity to love

Q: What is your motto?
A: Maryanne Williamson's quoteused by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."