Dr. Christal Mischelle Omni, MPH, MLS is a Black women's health researcher, eco-womanist practitioner, and Environmental Embodiment Educator whose work centers nature as a site of teaching, learning, healing, and well-being. With 25 years of experience across public health practice and community wellness, she brings a culturally grounded critique to the consumer marketplace of "self-care," advancing self-restoration as an accessible, ethically rooted alternative.

Rooted in transgenerational storytelling and ancestral remembrance, Dr. Omni's work is shaped by the teachings of Black elders, family archives, and dream visitations that call her into healing work across time. She approaches cultural memory as methodology-listening for what the land holds, what the body remembers, and what the Ancestors whisper through image, intuition, and return. Her scholarship and pedagogy integrate storytelling, spiritual ecology, and arts-based inquiry, inviting learners to engage the living world-trees, plants, landscapes, and ecological "messengers"-as co-teachers in processes of reflection and transformation.

Dr. Omni's research is shaped by her acclaimed TEDx Talk, Nature: A Site of Radical Self-Restoration, and her award-winning doctoral dissertation, Black Joy in Green Spaces: A Nature-Inspired, Endarkened Visual Narrative Inquiry about Black Women and Joy (Florida State University). She is the founder of the OMNI Institute of Well-being and creator of The Omni Process™, a five-step framework for eco-autoethnographic research and restorative writing. Through her books, courses, and workshops, she supports students in every sense of the word-higher education learners, lifelong seekers, and community members-who are ready to breathe, remember, and return to wholeness.