Our Team



Imhotep Adisa

Imhotep Adisa is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Kheprw Institute, a non-profit organization focused on youth development in Indianapolis, IN.


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Diop Adisa

Diop Adisa was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended Broad Ripple high school and IUPUI. He is currently 29 years old and has been with the grassroots community organization Kheprw Institute (KI) since it's inception back in 2003. To describe him simply, he's an artist, activist and entrepreneur. He's apart of the social enterprise KI NuMedia (www.kinumedia.org) which is a web graphic video and social media design company. He’s also an independent hip hop artists who has work within the Indianapolis hip hop community for the past 10 years.


Mimi Zakem

Mimi Zakem was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied environmental management at Indiana University Bloomington where her passion for community-based social change and food system work blossomed. She moved to Indianapolis in 2015 to work with urban farmers as an AmeriCorps VISTA, when she connected with the Kheprw Institute and became heavily involved with the Community Controlled Food Initiative as an approach to fresh food access and community building. Mimi is grateful for heaps of mentorship and community love, as she works toward self-mastery and growing her contribution to community.


Alvin Sangsuwangul

Alvin Sangsuwangul grew up in Indianapolis and graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, CA. He has worked as an activist and advocate for environmental justice and community empowerment across the country and abroad in San Bernardino, Eastern Kentucky and Thailand. For the last 7 years he has worked with Kheprw Institute and Scarabys Consulting honing his skills as a social entrepreneur as a co-leader of KI NuMedia.