Dr. Niambi Hall Campbell-Dean

An Afrocentric, community psychologist, Niambi Hall Campbell-Dean is an Associate Professor and the current Program Coordinator of the Psychology Program at the University of The Bahamas. She completed her psychology degrees at the University of North Carolina -Asheville, Florida A&M, and North Carolina State University and is also a graduate of the first cohort of the US Embassy’s Academy of Women Entrepreneurs. She has lead the social analyst on several Inter-American Development Bank-funded projects. A certified diversity trainer and published researcher, her work primarily focuses on using culture as a tool for empowering those within the African Diaspora. This has led to her roles with the Critical Caribbean Symposium Series at the University of the Bahamas as well as co-founding, with her husband, The King of The Conch Fest, a Bahamian culinary-conservation competition with the mission to preserve conch and culture for future Bahamian generations.

Her professional appointments and honors are local and international and include being the past International Relations Chair of the Association of Black Psychologists, Psi Chi, and Alpha Kappa Mu Honors Societies. In 2014 she was the Bahamas Business Outlook Visionary Speaker. A mental health advocate, she was an organizing member of #WEGATCHU, the Hurricane Dorian psycho-social relief group out of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, and a founding member of the Bahamas Mental Health Association. Since 2007 she has served as a coordinator of the national-award-winning Indaba Project; a grassroots, community-based, youth organization whose mission is to empower African people around the world to resolve their issues and network with others with a similar goal. She is also a facilitator of Character Day Bahamas since its founding in 2016.

In her most current appointment as Chair of the Bahamas National Reparations Committee, she is the local representative for the CARICOM Reparations Committee and has been featured on local and international news outlets and podcasts including, On The Record with Jerome Sawyer, Sky News, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, CBC’s The Current with Matt Galloway, The Nation, Make It Plain with Rev Mark, Tempo Network, BBC Radio and has presented internationally with an intervention at the United Nations and as an invited panelist at the Accra Reparations Conference, hosted by the African Union in Nov 2024.