Larissa Parson, Embodied Joy Coach

Larissa Parson is a joy and justice coach, podcaster, and writer.  She helps her clients move toward radical self-love, body liberation, and joy through group coaching, 1-1 support, and embodiment/movement classes.  Larissa’s intersectional identities include Black, biracial, queer, chronically ill, and mom to twins.  She lives outside Durham, NC, on the traditional lands of the Eno, Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi, Shakori, and the Tuscarora people, in a country built on stolen bodies’ lives and labor.

Jennifer Foylan, Indigenous Social Justice Artist

Jennifer Folayan is a business owner, artist, and graphic designer who has created programs to empower and unite survivors of rape, incest, domestic violence, and foster care youth through healing arts. She is of Pueblo, Cherokee, Aztec and Spanish descent. She served on the Board of Directors for the Baltimore American Indian Center. She is an active Peer-to-Peer mentor for National Alliance on Mental Illness. Jennifer believes each person has the potential to create a life filled with happiness and love.

Trevia Woods, Educator & Community Builder

Trevia (TREE-va) is a mixed-race woman with Indigenous ancestors and nearly two decades of experience in bodywork, education, and community-building.  She has roots in the Midwest and Colorado and has traveled the world.  Trevia hosts the HELD community helping people remember their power by learning to establish traditions and community care rituals while connecting with their own lineage and heritages without culturally or spiritually appropriating.

Tamara Robinson, Sex, Intimacy & Body Confidence Coach

Tamara is a Passion & Pleasure coach who helps women navigate the very real feelings of overwhelm and pain experienced after a heartbreak or a major life event. She’s a mother, author, and poet who’s enthusiastic with a daily existence of pleasure, flow, ease. Tamara’s mission is to help women reclaim their sexual pleasure, have more confidence, and create more passion and pleasure in their life.

Kristen Mun, Theatre Artist and Racial Justice Advocate

Kristen was born and raised on the island of Oahu and currently lives in Portland, OR, where she works as a cultural consultant, Racial Justice Facilitator, and a core member of the Accountability Collective, a group of volunteers working toward racial equality for the Portland theatre community.  When she is not a facilitator and project manager with Racial Justice from the HEART, she is a stage manager and fight choreographer in the Portland theatre community.

Joyce Washington, Racial Justice Advocate. Mentor. DEIJ Consultant

Joyce served as a catastrophe team leader for Allstate Corporation for 42 years. Now, a Social Justice Advocate, her mission is to help eradicate systemic and institutional racism, representing people with “no voice.” Joyce is a chairperson for the Weakley County Reconciliation Project (engaging communities in conversations about race) and for the Martin Housing Authority. She is a certified Racial Justice Facilitator, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority member, and has three children and seven grandchildren.

David Valentine, Higher Ed Executive

Dave has spent most of his career in the world of private philanthropy and higher education finance and administration, where he consistently diversifies the workforce and mentors leaders (some out of the organization!). On the side he loves to support transformative education and is currently exploring possibilities in the realm of spiritual direction and coaching.

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Deb Shine Valentine, Life and Leadership & DEIJ Coach

I hold a wide range of credentials — from a Ph.D. in Childhood Studies to certification as a Racial Justice from the Heart Facilitator, to a Sex, Love and Relationship coaching certification. My 30+ years of experience as an educator is just as broad, ranging from early childhood education to college. Still, despite my best efforts, I never could find a way to suffer enough to make the world better, and trying to do so made life feel pretty darn HEAVY. Fast forward to today. I focus my efforts on joy, pleasure and self-compassion as the means to bringing change that makes the world better for all beings. I call this path thriving for equity and love helping others to do the same.