SPONSORSHIP PROSPECTUS · 2026
Cultural infrastructure, built by the mothers institutions have always overlooked.
A civic structure, built to be joined.
Dunia Dialogues is the flagship program of Dunia Consulting LLC, based in Columbus, Ohio.
SPONSORSHIP PROSPECTUS · 2026
A civic structure, built to be joined.
Dunia Dialogues is the flagship program of Dunia Consulting LLC, based in Columbus, Ohio.
THE THESIS
Immigrant, diaspora, Black, Brown, and Indigenous mothers already hold the knowledge institutions spend budgets trying to access. Dunia Dialogues doesn't teach them to speak. It builds the conditions where they're already recognized as the experts in the space, and compensated as such.
Teresa Temu founded Dunia Dialogues in August 2025 as a cultural broker between institutions and the communities they routinely overlook, and as a builder of the actual infrastructure: the trust architecture, the compensation, the documentation, the follow-through. Every convening produces a formal report. Every knowledge holder is paid. The infrastructure compounds — gathering by gathering. In Franklin County alone, that reach already spans 30+ ethnicities in a single gathering.
WHERE IT STARTED · AUGUST 2025
Dunia Dialogues began at ABA Gallery on August 16, 2025 — the first gathering built on the same premise every convening since has held: that immigrant, diaspora, and Black mothers are civic leaders and knowledge-holders, gathered as peers rather than an audience. That first evening set the template for what followed.
SIGNATURE CONVENING · JUNE 2026
Held on World Refugee Day at Zora's House in Columbus, this convening brought African immigrant mothers and American-born Black mothers into small knowledge circles built around a documented health disparity: foreign-born Black women arrive in the U.S. with better birth outcomes than U.S.-born Black women — an advantage that erodes within a single generation. Through oral inquiry and story harvesting, participants named what's carried across that generation, and what gets lost.
Interpretation was built into the gathering, and every knowledge holder was compensated for the wisdom she brought. A formal report is in production.
IN PARTNERSHIP · APRIL 2026
Dunia Dialogues co-hosted Beloved Futures with Mother's Trust Alliance, whose Guaranteed Basic Income model provides direct cash support to a cohort of Black birthing people — built on the belief that the people most impacted by a system are the ones equipped to redesign it.
Participants sit at the table as co-designers, researchers, and organizers reshaping the narratives, policies, and systems that shape Black maternal health — not as recipients of a service.
WHAT PARTNERSHIP MAKES POSSIBLE
Every tier below funds a specific, named convening — interpretation, knowledge-holder compensation, venue, documentation, and the report that follows. Amounts shown are starting figures for discussion.
Starting figure — confirm scope together
Starting figure — confirm scope together
Starting figure — confirm scope together
WHY DUNIA DIALOGUES
Teresa Temu built and personally curates every circle — continuity a rotating program staff can't offer.
Every convening produces a formal report, grounded in peer-reviewed research on maternal health disparities.
Relationships with Zora's House, Columbus City Council, and Ohio State researchers open conditions few institutions can reach alone.
Knowledge holders are paid for their expertise, every time — the model, not an exception.
Dunia Dialogues is choosing its next round of partners now. Bring your questions — this is a conversation between peers.
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