Riki Yvette Westmoreland is a multi-award-winning independent actress and the Founder and Architect of Butterfly Theratainment™, an immersive, multi-faceted, mission-driven entertainment ecosystem designed to use acting as a catalyst for people-powered change.

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Through Riki’s World, LLC, she creates transformative storytelling and character experiences that include cinematic-style scenes, live role-play, mentorship, personal-growth acting coaching, and immersive workshops—all crafted to spark self-discovery, healing, and collective empowerment.

As CEO of Riki’s World, she leads a platform dedicated to innovative, purpose-driven storytelling that bridges cinematic, theater-style, digital, live, and grassroots experiences. Riki’s World also supports grassroots organizations, charities, and companies by providing periodic brand promotion, design services, and sponsorships to amplify their mission and initiatives.

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In partnership with the Darlene Johnson Foundation, Riki offers a unique blend of creative strategy and mission-driven design to help strengthen the foundation’s online presence and community outreach. Through her company, she provides digital design services and brand partnership support that enhance the foundation’s visibility and impact.

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Riki’s World has also served as a digital sponsor to the foundation—designing its full website and maintaining updates, creating the official logo, and designing the main brochure, as well as gifting the first Forgotten Faces poster. These contributions reflect an ongoing partnership dedicated to enhancing storytelling, visibility, and brand impact in service of the foundation’s commitment to community and societal betterment.

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Riki's acting career spans film, theater, and digital TV. She is recognized as the first pioneering actor on the now globally viral digital series Dhar Mann, where her emotionally raw, signature performances helped define the platform’s impactful storytelling style in its startup beginnings. Her compelling portrayals were instrumental in the series’ early breakout success, drawing audiences back for more as the channel climbed to billions of views.

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In 2021, after four years with Dhar Mann—and facing personal and professional hardships, including homelessness—Riki made the bold decision to re-imagine her life and legacy by bringing acting directly to the people to create the impact she envisioned. From that choice came Riki’s World, LLC — Home of Butterfly Theratainment™, a groundbreaking ecosystem of immersive storytelling and healing-centered film, digital, live, and real-time experiences that use acting as a tool for growth, self-discovery, and grassroots change. She actively travels the nation bringing these experiences into communities along with empowering guest talks and appearances.

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Butterfly Theratainment™ is a one-of-a-kind creative practice Riki developed from her own lived experience. It blends her honors-level studies in computer technology, software engineering, and machine learning with a deep passion for cognitive psychology, quantum physics, and spirituality—and her hard-won personal journey overcoming adversity. The result is an inventive, people-first approach to transformative storytelling that combines cinematic art, character monologues, role-play, and guided reflection to foster personal growth and social change.

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With her creative leadership, Riki helps the Darlene Johnson Foundation expand its visibility, deepen its connection with supporters, and tell its story in ways that inspire action and compassion. Her commitment to authentic engagement, inclusivity, and people-centered advocacy reflects her vision for a more empowered, co-creative, and equitable future.