Candice Foster
Candice is a Nebraska native that currently has a store of her own on Etsy. She is a mother, wife, entrepreneur, and lover of cats. Candice is a woman of strong faith and has a passion to help heal individuals that are struggling with self-esteem challenges. She often promotes self-love, creating, and celebrating your gifts.
Shamirah Seals
Shamirah is a special needs advocate for adults and children who have been diagnosed with mental, emotional, and physical disabilities. She, herself has had many personal challenges with mental, emotional, and physical health. She has been crocheting for 12 years, which was cathartic for her healing process from childhood trauma.
Christina Millard
Christina is California born, but Nebraska raised. She has been crocheting for about 2 years and it all started when Christina found out that her sister was pregnant - wanting to make something special that she could hold on to. From there, her creations have ranged from hats, baby booties, scarves, and dolls.
Bridget Mueting
Bridget was taught to crochet by her grandmother over twenty years ago. Since then she's crocheted everything from hats and scarves to toys and even an umbrella. She was excited to hear about this project and wanted to help because she believes that toys can be a comfort and companion for children.
Jayma Smay
Jayma became a part of the Imani Project as a crocheter because she loves the idea of helping multicultural children who need emotional support dolls to assist them with their emotional development and psychological improvement of their self-esteem by seeing their culture be emulated with the dolls of color.
Anna Edwards
Anna is an aspiring doctor, christian, wife, and natural giver to those in need. Her ministry is focused on providing health resources to underprivileged people. She once had a vision of being a medical care provider in third world countries. She crochets out of love in God's name.
Kim Stepp
Kim is the creator of Pumpkin Rose Crochet. She has been crocheting for over 3 years. Kim believes that God blessed her with this wonderful gift as crochet has literally been her lifesaver as she struggled through depression. Kim’s crochet helps her enjoy life through a whole different venue.
Mary Sutherland
Mary grew up in north Omaha and learned to crochet from her grandma at 9 years old. She went to college in Nebraska and Kansas then moved to Alaska. She and her husband returned to the Midwest to be closer to family, and now live in Omaha where she continues to craft and be involved in her church and community while raising her 5 kids.
