Facilitator: Lisa Yancey
Lisa is a thinker and doer who cares about our current state and our future. She knows that her life has a purpose beyond her personal comforts. She has dreams yet realized and those that are fulfilled. Her background as a dancer and lawyer frame her dedication, rigor, creativity, and work practice. She wants her labor to matter long after she is gone.
She is the founder of Yancey Consulting, committed to mission-centered work in service of liberation.
ALOK Vaid-Menon
ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of multiple books exploring how we can transcend the gender binary. They are the creator of #DeGenderFashion: a movement to degender fashion and beauty industries. Over the past decade they have presented at more than 600 venues in 40 countries; they currently live in New York City.
Bridgit Antoinette Evans*
Bridgit is a cultural strategist, a navigator of liminal space, and someone deeply grounded in both the theory and practice of transformation at scale. She is the founding CEO of the PopCulture Collaborative, and is currently leading an emergent strategy process seeking to impact the majority of Americans (150 million people). Bridgit’s gift is an expansive and magnetic vision, paired with a rare capacity to translate dreams into material reality. Her efforts in cultural strategy and media as foundational to how we achieve enduring social change at scale. She lives outside New York City.
Brian Stout*
Brian a mediator, curator, network weaver, and deep believer in human potential. His background is in conflict mediation in East Africa, the Middle East, and Myanmar; he now stewards the Building Belonging collaborative, a global effort to build a world where everyone belongs. His gift is finding and connecting people around a shared vision, and focusing relentlessly on imagining and building the world we long for. He lives with his family in southern Oregon.
Farzana Khan
Farzana is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Healing Justice London. Her practice works on building community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented groups. Farzana has a background of over 10 years in youth and community work, particularly focused on arts-based education projects both in the UK and internationally. She lives in London.
Imara Jones
Imara, whose work has won Emmy and Peabody Awards, is the creator of TransLash Media, a cross-platform, non-profit journalism and narrative organization, which produces content to shift the current culture of hostility towards transgender people in the US. She serves on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity. She also serves as Chair of the Board for the Transgender Law Center, and as Co-Chair of the New Pride Agenda. Imara is also on the boards of the Anti-violence Project, GLSEN, and the LGBTQ+ Museum. Imara is also part of the Move to End Violence; she currently lives in New York City.
Marielena Hincapié
Marielena Hincapié is the past executive director of the National Immigration Law Center. She is a bridge builder within the immigrants’ rights field as well as across broader social justice sectors. Recognized as a seasoned strategist and bridge-builder, Hincapié has led national policy campaigns, including the creation and successful implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and #ImmigrantsAreEssential highlighting the humanity and dignity of migrants.. Fully bilingual and bicultural, Ms. Hincapié immigrated as a child from Medellín, Colombia, and lives in Washington, DC.
Mark Gonzales
Mark Gonzales is a futurist. He develops tools, tech, and narratives to ignite civic imagination and shape human existence. He is the Chair of the Dept. Of The Future. His work includes connecting artisans, investors and urban planners to tell the future story of space, pairing kid lit creators with architects to create more child inclusive cities, convening public trust tables disguised as dinner table conversations, and building real-world applications for the emerging empathy technology field. His family splits time between Northern Africa, the UK, and the US, building a new generation of trans-Atlantic partnerships that do good, revitalize economy, and foster global citizenship.
Pat McCabe - Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining***
Pat is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human. She currently lives in New Mexico.
Sanjay Purohit*
Sanjay is a strategist, a synthesizer, a network weaver, and one of the most gifted systems thinkers I’ve ever encountered. He is a founding director of Societal Platform, working at the intersection of technology and social transformation. He has a unique approach to scale, designing interventions with a specific focus on “population scale” (for India, that’s 1.3 billion people). He lives in Bangalore, India.
Staci Haines*
Staci has been experimenting at the intersections of personal and social transformation for the last 30 years through the work of somatics, trauma healing, embodied leadership, and transformative justice. Staci is the author of "The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice" (North Atlantic Books 2019). Her aim is to bring transformative capacity to social and climate justice movements through collective practice, and healing the impacts of trauma and oppression. She is the co-founder, and prior executive director, of generative somatics, the founder and generationFIVE whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations, using transformative justice approaches.
