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Protecting Dreams

MANIFESTING FUTURES
Creating Champions

15 years of experience championing for the Hood & urban youth!

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Our Founder & Managing Director
Ocean Novae Anuru, LMSW, MPH

Advocate for Liberation & Authentic Change

Welcome to DKC! 

I am Ocean Novae Anuru—a Black woman, Hood scholar, and generational dream keeper. My life’s journey has taken me from loss and survival through healing into leadership. Each part of my story grounds my purpose: to advance Black liberation every single day and to champion the brilliance, culture, and resilience of Hood Black youth and communities across the U.S.

I created Dream Keep Consulting to be a space for collective possibility, where we move beyond the confines of white supremacy culture and imagine new ways of living, leading, and supporting each other. The systems we work within are often not built to honor us, so my calling is to help organizations rethink, repair, and reimagine their roles—centering accountability, community care, and justice. DKC exists to provide the tools, coaching, and honest conversations that support real, sustainable transformation.

My work is rooted in lived expertise: I have survived displacement, abuse, grief, and the impacts of systemic violence, and I am grateful now to thrive and model healing. As someone living with Complex PTSD, I bring not only professional knowledge, but also a deep empathy for the journeys others are walking.

I adore Hood Black youth. They are the center of my work and the inspiration for everything I do. I honor their ingenuity even when the world doesn’t. My heart is in the Bronx, metro-Atlanta, Philly, and with Hood communities everywhere—celebrating our culture, creativity, and wisdom.

Wherever I go, I am dedicated to showing up fully, advocating for investing not just in myself, but in every young person who is told they are less than. I believe in the inherent worth of all people, but I intentionally uplift the marginalized and underinvested, choosing language and practice that focuses on systemic accountability rather than blaming individuals.



respect
& Protect
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hood!

Dream Keep Consulting is the manifestation of dreams I held tight, some that nearly slipped away. Inspired by Langston Hughes’ The Dream Keeper, DKC is a lush garden to nurture new ways of being, grow through the realness of struggle and “the werk,” and protect our light from the world’s too-rough edges.

If you’re ready—to reimagine your mission, serve Hood Black youth with humility, and move toward liberation for all—we can create something important, together. This is a call for honest partnerships, a rejection of harmful norms, and a commitment to be part of real, accountable change.

Thank you for witnessing and supporting this vision.

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©2020-2025 by Dream Keep Consulting LLC

New York City, New Jersey, & Remote Nationally

​info@dreamkeepconsulting.com

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DKC is operated by Ocean Novae Anuru, LMSW, MPH

Ocean is a young Hood Black woman that has devoted her life to loving Hood Black youth & young adults

- and the people that genuinely care for them.

You can reach her at: Ocean@dreamkeepconsulting.com

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