YEMAYA is a New Jersey City University non-profit, non-religious organization under the auspices of the Black Administrators, Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Students Organization (BAAFSSO) and supported by The Lee Hagan Africana Studies Center.

Yemaya recognizes that women of African descent are women of vision, unified across our diversity and spirit. Yemaya is committed in partnership to the respect for and celebration, evolution, promotion, and enforcement of our womanhood. Furthermore, it is a source of peer/professional support and information to develop leadership among women of African descent within the New Jersey City University community and elsewhere and to provide a voice for women of African descent who might not otherwise be heard.

Yemaya also represents surrender. Surrender in this case doesn’t mean giving up, rather giving over, asking assistance so that she may do what she wants to do. Wholeness is nurtured as one realizes the way through certain situations is to surrender and open to something greater. Yemaya nurtures, heals, touches, blesses, comforts, and makes whole that which is incomplete.

Invoke Yemaya for blessings, compassion, wisdom, riches, inspiration, creativity, creation, fertility, female power, women’s wisdom, protection of home, good health, true beauty, washing away sorrow, revealing mysteries, and learning not to give your power away.