Ancestral Alchemy Academy is a changemaker-maker
our story
From Vision to Actualization
Ancestral Alchemy Academy, LLC is a licensed mobile child care center and revolutionary curriculum hub that is radically reimagining education as we know it.
Founded in 2018 by Tiarra Asia Omar Allen-Knox, aka Mx.T, the Academy was born out of children’s deep longing to understand the complexities of human behavior and to know themselves more fully. After witnessing her transformative early-elementary classroom practice, Mx.T was invited to create her own independent, teacher-led micro-school and Ancestral Alchemy Academy was born.
Just as the Academy took root, the world was met with crisis and timely call for reimagined approaches to youth school programming. Ancestral Alchemy rose to meet that call, offering holistic, nature-based learning grounded in the Montessori method, mindfulness, Ancestral wisdom, and radical healing.
Today, Ancestral Alchemy Academy is more than a school ~ it is a curriculum and resource hub for families and youth-service providing organizations including district schools, independent schools, private schools, micro & home schools. The Academy's offerings have grown organically with curriculum designed to responding to the nuanced needs of children over as expressed over sixteen years of close observation and service.
Mx.T continues to guide Ancestral Alchemy Academy as lead teacher and creator, ensuring that every offering stays rooted in nature, ancestry, and following the lead of the child.
From story to practice, we carry this vision for AAA into our
Intention, Mission, and Actualization ~
the three guiding forces that ground all we do.
intention
Our intention is to offer radical learning ( & unlearning) opportunities deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions and the ancient principles of our Ancestors on whose shoulders we stand.
mission
Our mission is to affirm each child's whole identity by supporting them in their development of invincible esteems, and careful responsibility for the environment, the community ,and the self.
actualization
actualization is achieved via the implementation of our camps, workshops, parent groups, offerings, & healing - centered engagements for district schools, independent schools, home schools, microschools & youth-service- providing organizations.
Tiarra Asia Omar
Allen-Knox
Tiarra Asia Omar Allen-Knox is a Professional Storyteller and Montessori-Trained Independent Teacher Activist who has been of service to thousands of youth and families. Mother Creator of Ancestral Alchemy Academy and The DREAM Liberation School, La Madre Tiarra (aka Mx.T) is committed to ensuring the bliss of our rising generations and supporting our youth in developing the critical consciousness muscles necessary for enacting lasting individual, interpersonal and institutional transformation. With over 16 years of experience, Mx.T holds space for our youth to see the truth in everything and sharpen sharpen their natural capacities to cut through illusions, shift the status quo, and be the change.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”
~ Frederick Douglass