Gratitude:UnFiltered “The Chronicles of Dr. Omai Kofi”
Omai Kofi (formerly Donna Lynn Coffee) born September 6, 1978 is an American Media Executive, television and radio Talk Show Host, Executive Producer, Writer, Producer, Director and Equity Activist.
She is best known for publicly speaking on socioeconomic solutions and the effects of the disease of poverty. She created a quarterly town hall: Development & Organization of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DO or DIE) project, in Texas for political and community leaders to engage in collaborative efforts to serving their constituents and cities.
Executive Producer
In 2010 Omai became the Executive Producer of the Cheryl Action Jackson Talk Showairing on UAN/Verizon Fios; during all of which she was in and out of homelessness and welfare. She’s the EP for the Action Has No Season Conference on behalf of her Billionaire Mentor Dr. Michael V. Roberts’ book series.
Since 2014, she has flown in African American Billionaires and Millionaires into Dallas, Texas for her Community Economic Opportunity (C.E.O.) project which opened direct lines of communication of the established wealthy to an aspiring community who needed mentorship. Most C.E.O. events were held at her mentor Mark Cuban’s Landmark Theater in West Village area of DFW. These events have influenced start- ups and business owners scale via the project’s resources and networks. The project has now evolved into a multifunctioning platform which serves as an investor & mentor match-making opportunity: I Got Funded! exposing entrepreneurs to non-traditional funding options, utilizing her own personal relationships with angel investors, legacy investors and venture capitalists.
In 2019, Omai joined forces with Brother Ben X as the EP for Millionaire Weekend is a 3-day intensive which takes place on a monthly basis where aspiring millionaires are able to work directly with those who have reached such a status and are ready to deep dive into what it really takes to get to millionaire status.
Radio Personality
Radio Personality, Executive Producer of THE BLACK PRINT, a Socioeconomic Radio Talk Show formerly aired on Power 214 Radio, hosting investors, financial industry leaders, and economic leaders. As a former Weekly Radio Correspondent for Business Start Up 101 on KHVN Heaven 97 with Robert Ashley, she continues to use her multimedia background to push local, national, and global initiatives.
Multimedia Expert
Author and Speaker of her new series “Brainwashed Into Wealth” which gives mentality programs to people who are looking to raise their financial IQ and go from poverty to six- figures and beyond. The series journey’s people through mental programs allowing them to grow their wealth within their job or even their own business. At the age of 26 she began making six-figures in Corporate America while making them millions of dollars per quarter. After putting in her 2 weeks notice and divorce at 29 she pursued a very late modeling career as a runway and showroom model.
She quickly began to learn the business side media and developed into the Regional Marketing Manager for the Vonage campaign managing hundreds of brand ambassadors in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Georgia with The AMP Agency/Alloy Marketing & Media. Her career consisted of brands such as Bank Of America, Psyched (television show), Zest, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Dr. Pepper, NASCAR, Hypnotiq, Miller Lite, M&Ms and many more. Her branding experience led her to commercial modeling and performing on television commercials with Teligence (Canada) Ltd. Boulevard Media and others. She went on to working on reality television and eventually producing television sitcoms, talks shows and films.
Reality Television Personality
Dr. Omai Kofi has been Featured on Reality Shows such as NBC’s Momma’s Boys with Ryan Seacrest moving a few doors down from The Queen of Media, Oprah Winfrey. Omai and her son were also featured on TLC’s Outrageous Kid Parties. She is the Writer/Producer/Director of Omai Films (Formerly Infinite Visun Pictures) which completed their first film “Man-I-Fested” in 2010 with a cast & crew of 111 people including 19 teenagers who’s salaries the State of Georgia paid through Omai Edutainment, their internship program. These teenagers learned: work-life balance, financial literacy, emotional quotient, financial quotient and on the job skills
Network Owner
By 2015 she began working exclusively on Omai Network Entertainment (O.N.E.) was able to secure over half a million dollars from various business ventures mainly diverse investments and another six figures from financial institutions. Her media company has worked with various award shows and galas such as Xernona Clayton’s Trumpet Awards aired on TvOne and Dr. Cheryl Jackson’s Feed Just One Gala which in 2017 featured The Queen of All Media, Oprah Winfrey who raised over one million dollars for the evening. In 2019 she began working her new coaching network Omai On Demand a full fledged media platform for Financial Literacy and Socioeconomics coaching and training.
Writer Credits
Her writings, events, and work has been published in Rolling Out Magazine, The Seattle Times, The Associated Press, and local Dallas area publications such as The Plano Insider, Southern Dallas Business & Living Magazine, Manna Express, North Dallas Gazzette, Dallas Weekly, Texas Metro News, Garland Journal, Fab Dallas Magazine, Provoke Magazine and many others.
Awards
Omai has been named:
- Equanimity Awards, Media Partner of The Year.
- National Women’s History Month Honoree by Oak Cliff Community Development
- in Partnership with the Women’s Bureau (United States Department of Labor).
- 10 Shades of Success Honoree.
- AmplifyHer Life SOAR Award Honoree.
- Golden Rule International Nominee.
- Change Nations Women of Global Solutions Award.
- PAW Honoree
- Dr. O
- In 2015 her long-time mentor Dr. Michael V. Roberts nominated her for 2 honorary doctorates (Philosophy) for her community services and business ventures. She also has here doctorate in Divinity and is an evangelist.
- Social Activist
- Issues:Socioeconomics, Justice Reform, Victims of Hate Crimes, and Human Trafficking. Having worked side by side with local Social Justice Activists, she founded I Am For A Reason and created an apparel brand Xpressigence to fund families and victims of hate crimes. Dr. O is an advocate for DMST Victims, she is dedicated to tackling the tremendous ongoing issue of Human Trafficking in Texas and beyond. To bring further awareness to this devastating issue Omai speaks to various organizations and public officials to bring solutions to harsher punishment to John’s and traffickers on the way to eradication of this evil. In 2013 co-published Cruelty Beyond by Dr. Gabriel Emilio which can be found on Amazon, Barnes & Nobel — they are now working on their second solution- based book project and training videos entitled DO or DIE.
- Business Manager & Legacy Investor
- Omai managed Brother Ben X, A Social Influencer and Speaker who is known for consistently going viral. He has over one million followers on Facebook where he gets on average 5 million engagements per week, over 147, 000 followers on Instagram, and over half a billion views on YouTube and social media.
Board Member
— Texas Black Pages which has over 8,000 Black Owned businesses registered within the 254 Texas counties since 2016.
— National Nonprofit Minority Association, the first national Nonprofit association for Mintority charities.
GOTNI), a nonprofit leadership development organization,
Founder
The Board Of Literacy, Inc. Chairwoman|Founder|President, a 501(c)(3) charity based in Dallas, Texas with a mission to advance the financial quotient of youth ages 0–25. In 2019 the State of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services awarded TBOL a six-figure grant through Child Youth Development (CYD) program. The focus is to provide financial literacy and education to youth ages 13–18 in the 75216 zip code which has the highest incarceration, STD and poverty rates in the entire state. TBOL has webinars, workshops, summits, in and out of school conferences and seminars for these youth. Our organization also works in partnership with National Youth Week, External Partners Inspiring Cultural Change (E.P.I.C.C.),Trinity River Mission Project, South Oakcliff High School and Lyles Middle School and other companies and organizations.
CEO
Aziz Partners, Inc. Chairwoman|Chief Executive Officer, a business management firm which provides essential services to the operational side of businesses and organizations. We help develop business cultures, strategies and implementation of goals. We connect our clients with million-dollar and billion-dollar companies for hands- on growth implementation. We help through our Capital|Marketing|Investments consulting method (CMI). As an administrative and operational support team, we are able to accelerate business growth.
