HOW KENYAN-AMERICAN NAOMI WACHIRA QUIT HER JOB TO PURSUE MUSIC

February 29, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Her journey into music began by her making a very bold decision. TO QUIT HER JOB. Naomi is well educated and even has a masters degree, that got her a very good job in the city of Seattle, WA, and though it was well paying, it did not give her the satisfaction that she wanted. Everyday was a struggle to get to work, and she finally called it quits to follow her dream that she kept postponing – MUSIC.

MEET SEATTLE BASED NAOMI WACHIRA: AN AFRICAN GIRL, AN AMERICAN WOMAN

August 7, 2013.Reading time 7 minutes.

Naomi Wachira meets me at the Starbucks in the lobby of an office building at Eighth and Virginia. Somewhere above us she works as an administrator for Casey Family Programs, a nonprofit that serves children in foster care. It’s a warm, iced-coffee kind of day, but Wachira has brought a mug of Kenyan tea. It’s a […]