Protecting Dreams
MANIFESTING FUTURES
Creating Champions
16 years of experience in youth development and trauma-informed care!
Our Founder & Managing Director
Ocean Novae Anuru, LMSW, MPH, PMP
Advocate for Liberation & Authentic Transformation in Human Services
Welcome to DKC!
Ocean is a facilitator, trainer, and organizational consultant with more than 16 years of experience supporting youth-serving organizations, mission-driven teams, and community-centered initiatives. Her career sits at the intersection of human services, public health, organizational change, and strategic project leadership. She brings a rare blend of relational depth and operational strength to the spaces she facilitates. She helps organizations build reflective, practical, and healing-aware learning spaces that strengthen how staff and leaders support youth and communities.
Ocean holds a Master of Social Work in Management of Human Services with a focus on children, youth, and families in society, which is licensed in New York State. Additionally, she also holds a Child Welfare Certificate from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor School of Social Work. She has a Master of Public Health in Health Education and Health Behavior from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor's School of Public Health. She studied Psychology & Educational Studies, with a Biology minor at her alma mater, Swarthmore College. She is also a Project Management Professional, which strengthens the structure, clarity, and execution she brings to learning design, cross-functional work, and client engagement. Currently, she is near the finish line of her PhD in Business Psychology with a focus on consulting, deepening her expertise in organizational behavior, leadership, and change.
What sets Ocean apart is not only her academic and professional range, but the way people experience her facilitation. She is known for creating engaging spaces where participants feel open, grounded, and safe enough to be vulnerable. Her trainings invite reflection without losing rigor. They help people connect self-awareness to daily practice, and they translate complex ideas into practical tools that can strengthen teams, programs, and service delivery.
Through Dream Keep Consulting, Ocean helps organizations build the staff capacity and reflective culture needed to better support youth. Her work is especially resonant for leaders and teams who want training that is thoughtful, relational, and immediately useful in the real conditions of mission-driven work.