Annika Kazembe has over 20 years of experience leading successful organizations, to the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), at the Global Institute for Freedom Transformation and Enlightenment, GIFTE. She is also the Vice Chair and Executive Director of The Kazembe Foundation.

Annika is the founder of an award-winning health care agency, childcare, and learning center, and a virtual academy in the United States, namely Tender Loving Family Care, Inc.; TLFC Child Care and Learning Center; and TLC Virtual Academy, Inc. She also co-founded TLC Virtual Resiliency with her colleague and partner Dr. Robert Goldman, who is a clinical psychologist and an attorney at law.

She is very proud of her accomplishments. However, Annika states that she is most proud of the opportunity she has to touch lives as Vice Chair and Executive Director at  The Kazembe Foundation, which was rebranded in 2021 to include a mental health initiative, Corey’s Resiliency. This initiative is near and dear to her heart. Corey’s Resiliency aims to educate, support and provide advocacy for families of individuals who suffer from mental health challenges and have had contact with the criminal justice system or are at risk thereof.  

In alignment with the vision of her husband Courtney Kazembe, founder of GIFTE and The Kazembe Foundation, her vision of a system where Black, Latiné, Indigenous, and other youth of color have the freedom and power to live their full lives.

Annika uses her resources, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for Black, Latiné, and other youth of color.