Alison Avigayil Ramer (she/her) is a spiritual activist and the daughter of an Anglican-Catholic-Quaker mother of English and German descent, and a Jewish Ashkenazi father whose ancestors come from Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. She descends from a long line of missionaries, mercenaries, mystics, and misfits—those who wandered, witnessed and worshipped on this earth.

She has lived her life—the ancestral lands of the Lenape, Duwamish, Ohlone, Chumash, and Palestinian peoples, whose territories have shaped her life, learning, and spiritual path. She is committed to honoring these lineages through relationship, responsibility, and repair.

Alison has been an activist and community organizer since adolescence. She has walked alongside Indigenous leaders and their allies—from Palo Alto to Palestine — and has worked with numerous local and international organizations, governments and companies to this end.

She currently stewards The Social Change Sanctuary, an interspiritual initiative devoted to supporting sacred community formation, collective grief rituals, and the regeneration of life-affirming culture.

She also creates visual art and writing that she shared with the world as a part of her practice of grief and gratitude through her newsletter, Hodaya: A Journal of Grief and Gratitude.

Luz Schreiber is a word healer, writer, mother, educator, dreamer, danzante and community builder.

Luz identifies as a Queer Zapotecא Judíא who is also passionate about freshly made tortillas and learning new spicy recipes.

Luz was born on Turtle Island, the ancestral land of the Lenape people, currently named New York City and currently lives in Oaxaca, México once again.

As the founder of Writing with Light, she supports people in owning and sharing their unique voice with the world.

Luz believes that when people inhabit their personal truth, they are able to author their life with beauty and conscious purpose.

Eva Orbuch is a passionate justice seeker, coach, consultant, and musician. She is a Shomeret Shalom in training (Jewish nonviolence practitioner), a Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess), and frequently drums and sings for Jewish prayer spaces. She loves to support and coach people in finding their authentic activism, designing rituals for moments of life transition, and she acts as a “Drum Doula,” supporting people to build their relationship with drumming, power, and leadership.

Eva works in a holistic way with individuals, teams, and organizations who are committed to bringing change to their lives or communities, and need help in the process. Her coaching and consulting clients range from entrepreneurs, to managers to new employees, to artists, and change makers.

She has a background as an advocate for educational equity and community organizer, which led her to coach people to finding their own satisfying contributions to the world.

She is a Certified Coactive Coach, and has a B.A. in Urban Studies from Stanford University and a Masters in Urban Education from Loyola Marymount University.

She weaves a variety of spiritual practices into her life and coaching, such as renewal Judaism, the Work that Reconnects, danza de luna, mindfulness and meditation, movement, personally designed rituals, and more.

Krishnan is a keen observer of life through the tools of science, art, community, writing, and spirituality. He inherits this multi-faceted curiosity through his forefathers and foremothers, who were musicians, storytellers, teachers, herbalists, healers, and spiritual non-conformists.

His nomadic wanderings have taken him from India (in Sindhu-Sarasvati and Dravidian lands) across Europe (in Helvetian land) to California (in Ohlone land), where he currently resides. Along the way, he has picked up his life’s philosophy as a syncretic amalgamation of Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism, Stoicism, and Taoism.

Krishnan wields his formal education in physics as a tool to practically manifest some of his core values of compassion, gratitude and working towards the reduction of suffering, through solutions for neuroscience (for chronic pain, depression and anxiety disorders) and climate change (ocean de-acidification, coral conservation). Some of his non-fiction writings can be found here.

He also likes to contribute to nature and community through volunteering work in California State Parks and with the Human Library.

Some of his art and philosophy work can be found at @thegratefuluniverse, while his previously published philosophy book - Awaiting the End - can be found here.

Mark (he/they) is a queer Irish American raised by the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in the Central Valley of California, Miwok Territory. He is a performing artist, environmental scientist, and facilitator working at the intersection of intention and identity.

He received a degree in climate science at Cal Poly Humboldt in 2020 while also completing a 200+ hr yoga teacher training with Tosha Yoga in Arcata, CA. Later, during Covid, he created and acted in a show with Laura Murilljo Hart called “As The World Rises and Falls”, a clown piece and an apocalyptic anecdote; they went on to tour this piece, playing at eight different theaters over the years. Now he works with HAPPI (Helping Awesome People Prosper Intentionally) as Lead Program Manager, supporting the organization as they create facilitation frameworks, curriculum, and group spaces.

Morgan Bach, PsyD (she/her) is a therapist and organizer whose healing practice is grounded in peer and community models of care. She is a U.S. citizen of Danish and German descent. She follows a tradition of Lutheran faith leaders, organizers and artists who challenged their institutions and created community through contemplative practice, nature and the arts.

Morgan is particularly passionate about peer and community models of care, and has trained in conflict mediation, assault survivor advocacy, restorative justice, harm reduction and mindfulness meditation. Morgan is also trained in using Internal Family Systems and psychedelic-assisted therapy as both therapeutic modalities and spiritual practices.

Morgan was born in Taiwan and raised in Japan and India, which instilled a curiosity for identity and conflict transformation. Curiosity about our own and others’ experiences is foundational to her work, and she loves to hold spaces of collective curiosity and exploration. Morgan’s ongoing journey is to witness and honor the Divine within and between us.

Morgan majored in Race & Ethnic Studies at Whitman college with a focus on Middle East Studies. She studied Arabic for a semester in Jordan and taught English in a Palestinian refugee camp for one month in Southern Lebanon. She also spent nine months in the West Bank assisting a village under threat of demolition, operating a guest house and writing about Palestinian and Israeli resistance to the occupation. She has participated in interfaith organizing for collective liberation since 2012. She currently lives on Ohlone territory in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner and cat, Chico.

Dayne Samuels (they) is a white, Disabled, trans Jew, a ritual artist, teacher, student, medic alarm dispatcher, and community organizer.

Dayne grew up on the Channel Islands coast of stolen Chumash land in so-called Ventura, CA, and they're currently making home on stolen Piscataway and Susquehannock land in beautifully weird Baltimore.

They believe in the radical power of spiritual play and innovative prayer and seek to build a world that honors and is nourished by the Great Oneness of all. They take joy in being barefoot, sitting on the floor, and singing in community. Dayne is Ritual Chair of Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl, a Shomeret Shalom rabbinical student, and dedicated steward of their beloved feline companions, JPEG and PDF.

Leah Yael Levy is a mixed media artist, storyteller, printmaker and educator based in Berkeley, CA.

Yael is an American, an Israeli, an Arab and a Jew. A human manifestation of ‘yes, and’.

She believes the creative process to be its own reward and an incredible tool for healing and growing.