5+ years of blessed soulutions for working women.

About DDSOS

[di·di·ong]:

adjective

Afram-Ibibio word for blessed.

DDSOS is a Black woman-led mutual aid space that provides blessed soulutions for working women.

Meet The Team

Who We Are

“I can’t be a singular expression of myself, there’s too many parts, too many spaces, too many manifestations, too many lines, too many curves, too many troubles, too many journeys, too many mountains, too many rivers, so many “ — Solange Sokoro Kere Knowles

Didiong Adi is a designer, organizer, and communicator who lives in Detroit, Motown. She has been communicating and designing professionally for over 7 years. She has also been organizing professionally for over 5 years.

Didiong has created content and curated designs for university newspapers, blogs, nonprofit organizations, freelancers, small businesses, and media organizations. Didiong has provided organizing support to individuals, families, public organizations, nonprofit organizations, collectives, and small businesses.

She learned Public & Nonprofit Administration at the Detroit Public Library.

Adilah Didi Adi is a story-teller, griot, and blogger based in Detroit, D-town. She has been blogging about Black feminism, Black music, and Black fiction since 2012. She has also hosted multiple writing circles with fellow Black Women Writers.

She published her first fiction book “D1 B1BL” on Feb 2nd, 2020, and is currently working on book two. Adilah listens to Afrofuturist audiobooks, Afropunk, womanist lectures, Afropop, fiction podcasts, rock-n-roll, soca, soul, calypso, kaiso, kompa, hip-hop, & R&B.

She learned Digital and Media Communications at the Detroit Public Library.

Edidiong Adi is an editor, essayist, and educator living in Detroit, Anishinaabe Land. She has been editing and educating for over 5 years. In that time, she has created educational presentations at conferences, facilitated engaging workshops, tutored children at elementary schools, and tutored adults at public libraries.

Edidiong has also edited books, stories, news articles, essays, applications, event flyers, resumes, and promotional materials.

She learned Early Childhood Education and Adult Education at the Detroit Public Library.

Services

What We Do

Media Work

Business Blogging & Editing
Content Creation & Editing
Essay Composition & Editing
Fiction Blogging & Editing

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Thank you to Chona and the Disabled And Here team for this picture.

Organizing Work

Administrative Organizing
Caregiving Organizing
Digital Organizing
Individual Organizing

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Image courtesy of the Disabled And Here project.

Education Work

Social Justice Education
Language Education
Literacy Education
Media Education

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The Numbers Don’t Lie

5

cities

20

organizations

100s

lives changed

100%

client satisfaction

Why You’ll Love Us

Our services are guided by the principles of:

R.E.S.P.E.C.T (Ono)
Womanism (Wowanism)
Black Feminism (Abubi Wowanism)
U.N.I.T.Y (Diaki)
Care (Keere)
Empathy (Mbom)
Creativity (Andibifiok)
Communalism (Iduism)
Self-Determination (Buku Odudu)

“Excellent Service”

“Adilah Didi is an exceptional story-teller! I’m a blogger in Metro Detroit and Didi has helped take my writing to the next level. She offers great insight on how to craft engaging essays while allowing the writer to keep their voice. I highly recommend Didiong Soulutions”

—Kierra Gray
Lifestyle Blogger

“Fantastic Digital Organizer”

“Didiong has been extremely diligent, communicative, and clear throughout our work together. She is an awesome organizer!”

—Culpeper Creative Team

“Highly Recommend”

“Edidiong is a wonderful writer, editor, and mentor. I have relied on her professional expertise when I’ve needed academic or work-related documents reviewed for clarity, organization, and grammar.”

—Sandy Herrera
Legislative Analyst

“Refreshing Experience”

“As an editor, Edidiong guided me with patience and compassion. She didn’t make me change who I am to accomplish my writing. Even when my writing was disjointed, she pointed out the better aspects of it and that kept me writing. After our meetings, I was able to write more freely.”

—AJ Skillman
Attorney & Consultant