About Arndrea Waters King

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Arndrea Waters King has devoted her life to advancing justice, peace, and equality, leading at the intersection of public impact and personal resilience as both woman and warrior.

And yet, beneath the noise, there is a knowing. A truth that has always lived within us. A steady call back to ourselves, to harmony, and to the strength that grows from wholeness.

Early Influences
of Resiliency,
Compassion,
and Action

Arndrea’s mother, Gladys Waters, was her earliest and most enduring role model. While raising three daughters, she modeled what dignity, courage, and kindness looked like regardless of one’s circumstances. As the first Black nurse in her small Northern Florida town, she cared for hundreds of patients through the height of the AIDS epidemic, establishing needed care protocols that offered compassion and support during a time of fear and uncertainty. As a result, she was awarded the inaugural regional Nurse of the Year Award.
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Inspired to lead a life of service, Arndrea attended Emory University and spent the first decade of her career under civil rights legends Dr. C. T. Vivian and Anne Braden. Organizing the first National Conference on Hate Crimes, Arndrea helped build a national coalition that united constituencies across religions, geographies, ethnicities, gender, and sexual orientation as well as helping to build the Southern Coalition Against Racism and Bigotry. She co-authored the book When Hate Comes to Town, a Faith Based Edition to provide communities with effective non-violent responses.
Introduced by friends who recognized the shared purpose in their work, Arndrea later married Martin Luther King III. Together they are raising their daughter, Yolanda Renee King, the only grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

The Quiet Truth Beneath a Lifetime of Strength

But behind the strength and composure was a quieter truth. Even those who fight for the world’s healing must remember to nurture their own. In a culture that celebrates sacrifice over softness and haste over harmony, Arndrea began to see how deeply women, herself included, had been taught to strive, suppress, and survive.
She saw brilliant women leading families, businesses, and communities while losing connection to the very peace they were trying to create. The same imbalance she was working to dismantle in society lived within the hearts of women everywhere. She realized that the next revolution would not begin in legislation or in the streets. It would begin in the soul.
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Awakening the Power We Forgot

That realization became the seed of Divine Feminine, a global movement born from love, justice, and awakening. It is Arndrea’s call to restore what the world has forgotten. Feminine energy is not fragile; it is foundational. Through storytelling, community, and conscious action, she invites women to reclaim the parts of themselves they were taught to hide, their softness, their intuition, their grace, and to lead from that sacred strength.
Her work bridges activism and awakening and brings together the lessons she learned from decades in civil rights leadership with the wisdom she gained through her own journey back to wholeness.

When Women Rise,
the World Heals

The Divine Feminine is a homecoming. It is the place where women remember that leadership and love are not opposites but allies, that healing the world begins by healing within, and that when women rise in balance, the world begins to heal. Arndrea’s mission is to awaken the Divine Feminine in every woman so that together we can rebuild the world in the image of wholeness, wisdom, and grace.
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Arndrea

Waters King

Arndrea Waters King is the visionary founder of Divine Feminine, a global movement awakening women to the power, peace, and purpose that already live within them. Through her book My Legacy and the My Legacy podcast, she guides women back to their wholeness, offering wisdom that is soft yet strong, graceful yet uncompromising. Her work blends feminine awakening with legacy leadership, shaped by her roles as President of the Drum Major Institute, Co-Founder of Realize the Dream, and Chancellor of Legacy College. Arndrea’s mission is simple and profound: when women rise in balance, the world begins to heal.
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Words of Praise

“I’ve worked with Arndrea for many years, including as her co-host on our shared podcast, My Legacy, and have seen firsthand how she creates conversations that are both deeply human and genuinely meaningful. As a co-host and collaborator, she elevates every episode and the people around her with a steadiness, integrity, and warmth that are both rare and deeply impactful.”

Marc Kielburger,
Entrepreneur

“The 'Realize the Dream' initiative co-led by Arndrea has been a remarkable platform for galvanizing youth and communities to engage in civic action and community service. Her work continues to uplift and mobilize people nationwide.”

Community Leader​

“Working alongside Arndrea day-to-day and traveling with her, I’ve seen firsthand how grounded, thoughtful, and deeply intentional she is in every setting, leading with clarity and calm even in high-pressure environments, and remaining exactly the same person onstage as she is off it, which is rare and incredibly powerful.”

Jackie Pilon,
Chief of Staff

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