Okomfo Olufemi Baraka Shepsu M.S.W. aka Okomfo Kwabena Frempong is a School Social Worker employed by Richmond Public Schools, and is currently assigned to Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School.

Olufemi has had the privilege and honor of working with Black Families and Children in the City of Richmond for over 31 years, and has dedicated his life to their freedom, sovereignty, and healing. He is a native of Richmond, Va. and is a graduate of Virginia Union University, and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work.

Olufemi is an advocate of African-Centered psychology/ social work and is a disciple of Bobby Wright, Neely Fuller, Francis Cress-Welsing, Amos Wilson, and Kobi Kambon. Okomfo Olufemi has been tutored by some of the nation’s leading Black Nationalist which include Nana Agyei and Nana Akua Akoto, Nana Afia Akoto, Nana Ansa Atei, Okomfo Akua Agyeiman, Baba Sanyika and Mama Makini Anwisye, Baba Attiba Copack, Ausar Hanibal Afrik, and A. Peter Bailey.

Olufemi is an Okomfo (Priest) in the Akan Spiritual System of Ghana West Africa; and has been initiated to the Nana Asua Gyebi, Nana Kosi, Nana Iyago, Nana Tegare, Nana Sankofa, Nana Amentamanu, and Nana Esi Ketewa Shrines.

Olofemi is also a co-facilitator for the Cultural Mis-Orientation Co-Hort that was created by Black Psychologist Kobi Kambon, and is a Co-creator of the Maafa/Kebuka Ancestral Commemoration and the Abusua Pa Black Family Institute.

Olufemi is married to Obosomfo Yaa Kwatemaa Frempong and they are the parents of 4 children. He is an active member of the Ankobea/ NSAA Society, The National Association of Black Social Workers, and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Okomfo Olufemi is the Co-Chair of the Pan-African Affairs Committee, and is a Sage on the African-Centered Social Work Academy of the National Association of Black Social Workers. He is also the Co-Chair of the Education Committee of the Richmond Association of Black Social Workers.

Olufemi has been a featured speaker on the local and national level, and has presented on topics such as Cultural Reconstruction, Black Mental Health, and healing the Ancestral wounds of the MAAFA. Okomfo Olufemi is a musician who plays the tenor saxophone and the sangban, kenkeni, and dundun drums of West Africa. He is also professionally trained in traditional Adowa and Kete dance from the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa.