At a time on our world’s stage when conflict is our sole method of engaging across difference, Maia’s critical lens, at the core of which lie care, equity, and liberation, are essential to rethinking how to work amongst teams, organizations, and communities to carry out change - big or small. She is a health equity researcher, full spectrum doula, dynamic facilitator, and a reproductive justice champion fueled by the desire to ensure policy improves health rather than encumbers it, so all communities can lead healthy lives.

cai diluvio is a mother and ancestor in training, guided by their north star inara. their life spirals around co-weaving a more loving and sustainable future through practical magic, expansive imagination, and rooting our hands in the soil whilst compassionately listening to the stories of elemental forces. cai holds a passion for organizing gatherings and teaching around decentralized, interspecies, intergenerational community led + eco-social justice oriented knowledge sharing, and believes that mending our relationship to land is one of the major roots of individual and collective healing. she is trained as a farmer apprentice, herbalist, birth worker, researcher, street medic, programs developer, artist, and youth educator. cai is the program director for Movement Education Outdoors, board member and firekeeper apprentice / tekina for Taíno Woods Sanctuary, and board member of Emergent Forest.

Nitika Raj is a queer South Asian immigrant femme, coach, writer and dancer. Born in India and raised in Kuwait, she is a former refugee who currently lives on Lenape lands in Brooklyn, New York. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, she has faced several health challenges including endometriosis & multiple surgeries. Her project vision is to create a movement workshop that uses music and prompts from yoga and somatics to catalyze emotional expression and release. Participants will feel and flow between movement and stillness. The workshop will create a container to let our bodies tell our stories.

Imani Worthy is a Bronx native whose family was impacted by the child welfare system in 2019. Following this experience, she pursued advocacy work, holding roles such as Public Speaking Coordinator at Rise Magazine and Family Advocate at the Center for Family Representation. Imani is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Black Families Love and Unite (BLU), an organization dedicated to empowering Black and Brown families and dismantling systems of oppression. She holds an MBA and is deeply committed to holistic and restorative justice practices, including circle keeping and somatic wellness to create meaningful change for our communities.

Jay Sharma (he/him/any/all) is a Punjabi writer, artist, designer, photographer, poet, land steward, DJ, and mutual aid community organizer based in Brooklyn. His work focuses on culture and community, spatial justice, and experiential mediums of being. He is currently exploring the relationship between personal and community space, vulnerability as a radical act, and different ways of documenting the now. He is a hot water enthusiast, lover of basketball, and an avid biker. He is also the author of The Diaspora of Belonging, a book that looks at gentrification, urban planning, and design justice in twelve US cities.

Thu Nguyen is a queer, Vietnamese refugee who made history as the first nonbinary person to ever be elected in Massachusetts and the first Southeast Asian elected to Worcester City Council on a platform of creating a political reimagination of Worcester and nationally, where our government uplifts and holistically serves everyone. With a deep understanding of nonprofit, community care and legislative work, they commit their time and efforts towards investigating and navigating the intersectionality of identity and systems to center and advocate for collective care, liberation and justice. They consider themselves a spiritual alchemist, sunset chaser and lover of the universe.

Chelsea is a Dominican/Puerto Rican sacred artist, wellness facilitator, healer and cacao ceremonialist based in Massachusetts. Her offerings provide experiences for individuals to tap into their bodies, explore their experienced sensations and collectively practice self-regulation through connecting various modalities including movement, breath work, meditation, cacao and stillness. Chelsea’s (he)artwork examines her relationship with her ancestral lineage, healing practices, and the journey of her spiritual awakening. Through the use of vivid colors to represent the chakra system, Chelsea explores conversations with various versions of herself in the past, present and future. Her works, often ranging in 36 x 48” in size, take up space and pull the viewer into a surreal world of her own making. Chelsea’s hope is to create spaces for community members to connect with their bodies, co-regulate and practice taking up space as a collective. Chelsea holds space for healing through creating, resting, movement, play and embodiment as forms of resistance.

Andrea Gómez (she/her/hers) is a formerly undocumented bisexual femme from Peru that grew up in the West End of Providence. She has over two decades of experience as a community and campaign organizer as well as a dialogue facilitator focused on issues of identity, privilege, oppression, and equity. She recently founded Facilitate Change, a consulting firm whose mission is to dismantle systems of privilege and oppression through community organizing and dialogue-based education. Andrea’s philosophy is that we must approach this work with a focus on the intersections of our identities, placing equal value in all stories and helping participants understand how these systems of oppression impact us all. She currently serves as the Founder & Senior Facilitator for Facilitate Change. Their project is officially transitioning Facilitate Change to a multi-owner model, focusing on resolving existing conflicts and clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of all members. By confronting and resolving these conflicts, they aim to prevent the replication of harmful systems and create a more sustainable and equitable collective space.