Cari Caldwell
(she/they)

Cari Caldwell catalyzes life as a facilitator, executive coach, consultant and Entrepreneur. She is committed to using her privileges and 20 years of experience to co-create better relationships, systems and communities. Cari integrates a wide variety of liberatory methodologies and practices that open new possibilities for equity, deeper relationships, and higher performance. 

A taste of her work includes teaching embodied racial justice for white leaders, facilitating multi-stakeholder social innovation labs, supporting executive team collaboration and repair, producing a childbirth education film, and co-founding five organizations across the US and internationally.

Cari has trained and/or certified in ontological and somatic coaching, organizational and family constellations, Theory U social innovation, psychodrama, Art of Hosting, Barrett Cultural Values, sexuality and intimacy, and somatic leadership. She’s learned from a wide variety of organizations including the Radical Resilience Institute, Visions, the BIPOC Alliance, and the Strozzi Institute. Cari lives on unceded Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Ute territory in Colorado with her 2 sons and loves the torture of hot yoga.

Anita Keahilani Yap
(SHE/THEY)

Anita Keahilani Yap is the founder of MultiCultural Collaborative. Anita provides coaching, mentoring and embodied mindfulness support for fem-identifying people of color. They have over 25 years experience working with non-profits, government and small businesses providing a trauma sensitive racial equity centered approach for transformational change strategies for both organizations and individuals.

Anita Keahilani currently resides in Portland Oregon, acknowledging that she is on the traditional unceded lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Cowlitz, Clackamas, Bands of the Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla people and other Indigenous people who lived within the fertile lands of the Columbia River basin.

Anita Keahilani is nourished by connecting to the land and people. They are a mother, daughter, sister, Aunty, meditation, yoga and mindfulness practitioner, gardener, environmental activist, racial equity practitioner and worked in the woods as a tree planter and wildland firefighter.

Ethan Kerr
(he/him)

Ethan Kerr is a facilitator, coach and educator grounded in anti-oppression principles. Blending more than 15 years of experience in anti-racist facilitation, somatic group work and experiential leadership development, Ethan began Embodied Equity Project in 2018. As an able-bodied, heterosexual, cis-gendered, white man with class privilege, he acknowledges the paradoxes and limitations, as well as the opportunities and obligations, of facilitating equity work. He partners with organizations, businesses, schools, and individuals nationally, challenging people to align their behavior with their values. Ethan has received training from the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Fierce Allies, the Untraining, Paul Kivel, Visions, the Strozzi Institute, and Race Forward, among many others. He lives with his family in the Hudson Valley on Lenape land and loves to dance.

Janese  Murray
(She/Her)

Janese is the founder and president of Inclusion Impact Consulting, LLC, a diversity, equity and inclusion consulting firm. Janese leverages over 20 years of experience to assist diversity and inclusion leaders in building sustainable strategies and practices to meet their organizational goals and objectives. A thought leader in the field, Janese has been quoted in top publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Fortune, was recognized by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the Top Executives in Corporate Diversity and has been a presenter and panelist at various professional conferences.

Nirmala Nataraj
(she/her)

Nirmala Nataraj is a New York–based writer, editor, book midwife, theater artist, and mythmaker. Her work lives at the crossroads of creativity, mythology, storytelling, and collective liberation. As a multi-genre collaborator and creative facilitator, she believes in generativity in the midst of strife, the coexistence of love and justice, and breathtaking beauty as a natural consequence of this wild ride. She is trained in a variety of methods of narrative-based collective healing, including Family Constellations, Psychodrama, Playback Theatre, and Theatre of the Oppressed. Nirmala is the editor and content alchemist of Women For One, a global community that offers “truthtellers” from more than 50 countries a platform for sharing experiential wisdom and their most important stories. Find out more about Nirmala at nirmalanataraj.com.

Dara Silverman
(she/her)

Dara Silverman is a somatic coach, strategist, and Director of PowerLabs. She has been building movements for economic, racial, gender, and social justice for over 20 years. Dara was the Founding Director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national network of white people taking action for racial justice. She has been studying somatics with the Strozzi Institute and Generative Somatics since 2011. She is based in Beacon, NY.

Sacha Thompson
(she/her)

Sacha Thompson is the founder of The Equity Equation, LLC, a boutique inclusive culture consulting and coaching firm based in the Washington, DC area on the land of the Piscataway people. With 20+ years of experience within the education, non-profit, and tech industries, Sacha’s work is about removing barriers or providing support to achieve equity. 

She helps her clients by filling the gap between where they are now and where they want to be.

Clients will reach their highest potential by identifying where growth is desired and setting goals & objectives while holding themselves accountable. She was most recently featured in Forbes and Business Insider and was a contributor on MSNBC’s The Cross Connection.

Sacha is an ICF Associate Certified Coach and holds certifications as a Professional Diversity Coach, 4 Stages of Psychological Safety Certified Coach, Maslow Certified Leadership Coach, and Maslow Certified Executive Culture Coach. With a background in Sociology, specializing in Cultural Diversity & Ethnicity, Sacha earned a Master's in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership from The College of William and Mary. She further expanded her expertise with an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, emphasizing management and marketing. Sacha nourishes herself by spending quality time with loved ones, watching whodunit shows with a bit of comedy (Psych, Death in Paradise), and redesigning/reimagining rooms in my house.