Our Collective
Taquelia Washington
Co-Founder
(she/her)
Is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and a Certified Professional Coach with nearly 20 years of experience centering racial equity in the fields of mental health and organizational consulting. Taquelia brings all of herself, including her identity as a queer Black woman to her work as a teacher, coach and facilitator. She strives to create healing spaces where people can feel empowered to tap into their fullness of being. When she is not working, Taquelia loves to spend time with her family, eat yummy food, and commune with nature.
Jo Brownson
Co-Founder
(she/her)
Is a White, queer, educator, healer, facilitator, coach and systems thinker. For over 15 years, her area of practice and purpose has been to support individuals and organizations to surface how Whiteness is operating inside their context, recognize the way it intersects and reinforces other systems of oppression, and to take action to mitigate and transform its impacts. Jo is rooted in Oakland on unceded Chochenyo Ohlone land. She loves laughing and communing with her human, dog and plant kin.
Amanda Morris
(she/her)
Is a Black identified women and Licensed Clinical Social Worker by trade, self proclaimed revolutionary and systems disruptor. Area of practice is mostly focused around BIPOC communities with deep histories of trauma. Amanda focuses on work that centers Black experiences and highlighting opportunities for repair and restoration in pursuit of wholeness and belonging. She also has a passion for working with young leaders of color who are working to find their voice within their larger community. Amanda’s approach is compassionate, personal, and warm as she leads through vulnerability and invites others to do the same.
(inactive) Amelia Ortega, LCSW
(they/them)
Currently works as a somatic psychotherapist, organizational consultant and professor of Social Work practice. As a non-binary, mixed Chicanx identified clinician, Amelia’s work focuses on healing from racial trauma and gender-based violence. Amelia specializes in trauma conscious facilitation and trauma informed classroom pedagogies through their role as a Senior Lecturer at the Columbia University School of Social Work and as an organizational consultant. Amelia is a naturalist, bird photographer and biker who loves to dance and create dance parties in unexpected places.
Danya Axelrad-hausman
(she/they)
Is a white, Jewish and queer facilitator and youth health educator. As a facilitator, she works with groups to transform culture, address/take accountability for harm, and strengthen commitments to healing systems of oppression. Bringing experience working in youth mental health and development, outdoor education, and living and working in Jewish community, she draws from her ongoing learning in restorative practices in her facilitation. Danya is based on unceded Chochenyo Ohlone land in the Bay Area.
Denique Boxhill, MS, MA, APcc
(she/her)
Is an Associate Psychotherapist/ Professional Clinical Counselor and consultant at the intersection of mental health and organizational culture, centering racial equity. Her culturally inclusive approach is informed by her immigrant roots and her training as a Therapist in Residence with The Association of Black Psychologists. A proud Jamaican, Black, woman, Denique dedicates herself to this work because she is committed to the mental health and emotional well-being of her ancestors’ children. When she isn't working, you can find her reading, cooking (or eating), traveling, hanging out with her family, and/or listening to the soothing reggae beats from her home country.
Emily Artalejo Frailey
(she/her)
Is a mixed Latina dialogue facilitator with an academic background in peacebuilding. Emily earned her MA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington, D.C. She facilitates workshops and dialogue series around race, privilege, systems of oppression, and the experiences of first-generation college students. Emily is a yoga teacher who enjoys teaching yoga on land, on water, and in the air!
(inactive) Joe Latuga, MA
(he/him/his)
Is a white, cisgender, queer, Therapist, Transformational Leadership Coach, and Facilitator. Joe has experience working in Leadership roles at multiple national-impact nonprofit organizations. Joe currently has a private Psychotherapy and Coaching practice focused on helping people develop more values driven, empowered, and connected lives. Joe believes that leveraging his privilege is crucial in lifting the onus off of BIPOC communities; while supporting other white people in exploring their relationships to power, race, oppression, and community accountability.
Katherine Tarnoff, LMFT
(she/her)
Katherine is a licensed mental health therapist in Oakland, specializing in trauma-informed care with children, adolescents and families. She has been engaging in spaces for antiracist organizational change at various organizations and institutions, as both a group facilitator and individual coach to organizational leaders. As a white person, supporting other white identified individuals has been a central focus of Katherine's work. Her hope is working with others will support them in accessing openness within themselves so they can develop racial awareness, accountability and seek opportunity for repair. Katherine also identifies as Jewish and often explores various intersections of identity in her work with others. When not working, she's spending time with her family and loving on her two cats.
Meha Davé
(she/her)
A certified professional coach, yoga teacher, facilitator, and organizational development consultant who focuses on supporting collective healing and liberation that centers communities of color. A queer woman and child of South Asian immigrants, Meha brings both a critical lens and a compassionate presence as she invites people into radical exploration and transformative action. She is experienced in working with individuals and communities impacted by trauma and prioritizes bringing a holistic support approach that integrates the wisdom of mind, body, and spirit
Mira Stern
(she/they)
A queer white Jew born and raised in San Francisco, and currently lives in Oakland as a settler on Chochenyo Ohlone land. Mira consults with tech companies, organizations and school systems to develop equity strategies for long term impact, rooted in racial justice and community building. Mira recently finished her Master’s work in Education & Social Justice at USF, creating a 9-part workshop series on whiteness and antiracism for white educators. She is a plant witch and committed to earth-based practices as a central component of our movements for collective liberation.
Rinne-Julie Früster
(they/them/theirs)
a Queer, Biracial, Black & Afro-Peruana Femme born in raised in E.Hartford Connecticut. Rinne-Julie first got into Social-Justice work during their undergraduate career in the Greater Boston Area, and has been leading facilitations, workshops and designing social justice and equity-based curriculums for young people/students of all ages since 2015. They’ve worked with nonprofits, K-12 school districts and several universities since then.
“When I first entered the social justice world, a lot of the trainings and workshops I saw were based in retraumatizing BIPOC folk, for the sake of learning and focused mainly on devastation. While it's important to name those things, I like to ground my work in healing BIPOC folx first and this idea of “What does it look like to live in our liberation as we fight for it?”.
Rascal Roubos, LMFT
(they/them)
Is a white, TransNonBinary, Bay Area, nature-loving therapist. They are dedicated to facilitating personal, interpersonal and collective healing through relationships and advocacy. Kat draws on fifteen years of facilitation work focused on racial equity and LGBTQ experiences, and similar years of applied spiritual-mindfulness training. Their master's thesis, titled "Cultivating Resilience: Antidotes to White Fragility in Racial Justice Education," inspires their ongoing development of curriculum integrating somatic tools, playfulness, and trauma-informed pedagogy to address White Supremacy in organizational contexts. A belief that all liberations are interdependent, and a commitment to embodied truth telling underlies Kat's dedication to anti-racism and organizational change work.
rosa revuelta
(she/her)
Rosa Revuelta is a leader with over 18 years of experience in the social sector turned leadership coach. She helps BIPOC and First-Gen leaders become confident and respected change-makers in their industry. As a first-generation eldest daughter of immigrant parents, she has had to navigate cultural and societal expectations for what it means to be both a woman of color and a leader. Rosa went from doubting herself and struggling in leadership roles to a confident and respected change-maker who knows how to lead powerfully. Rosa is a lifelong learner with a bachelor's in social work, a master's in Mexican American Studies, and a master's in Nonprofit Administration.
Sitar Mody scott, amft
(she/her)
Sitar Mody Scott is a South Asian Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Antiracism/Organization Change facilitator. She embraces relationship, identity, systems-thinking, and a trauma-informed lens as core principles in her work with leaders and organizations to co-create courageous spaces for equity, healing, and continuous learning. Sitar also supports youth, adults, couples, and families through her clinical work at Sankofa Holistic Counseling Services, PranaMind, and the Therapists in Residence Program, a program founded by the Bay Area Chapter of the Association for Black Psychologists. When she’s not working, Sitar loves to spend time in the sunshine with her toddler.
stephanie z. chen, phd
(she/her)
Is a 1.5 generation Chinese American, immigrant and cisgender-female licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor who practices, teaches, consults and writes from a depth-oriented, multicultural, social justice and liberatory lens. Stephanie has particular passion and experience with exploring identity formation, sense of belonging, and acculturation, and issues related to transgenerational, familial, and cultural roots of trauma and growth.