CONTRIBUTORS
Ajax Wood Storm
Is a musician and artist from Index, Washington.
Ancestors
All ancestors, human and other than human have offered seeds, fertilization, nutrients and elements for everything here, before here and after here.
Anne Phillps
Anne Phillips, Worm tamer, shrub maker, zoo doo soil enricher, and bokashi composter. Psychotherapist + Consultant. Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone Trainer. Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
cristien Storm
Cristien Storm believes art, music, story and song are the roots of liberatory imaginations and healing. Cristien is the author of Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries and Inspiring Social Change. Her writing has appeared in For Antifascist Futures edited by Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura Trujillo, Against The Current Magazine “Inside Komen’s NGOized Culture with Kate Boyd, It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History edited by Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, Erin Yanke, and The Institute For Anarchist Studies Imaginations Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. Cristien is a co-founder and former Executive Director of Home Alive, where she developed and facilitated self-defense and boundary setting curricula grounded in martial arts, social justice and radical liberation praxis. She is also a co-founder with Kate Boyd of If You Don’t They Will, a Northwest collaboration that provides concrete and creative strategies to counter white nationalism through a cultural lens which includes creating spaces to generate visions, hopes, desires, memes and dreams for the kinds of worlds we want to live in.
Devin Boaker
Devin Bokaer is a first grade teacher at Cayuga Heights Elementary School, located on the living entity that is the ancestral Land of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ sovereign nation of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, which is now also known as Ithaca, NY. He previously taught preschool and pre-K in Singapore at Singapore American School and worked as a social worker in New York City. He is deeply moved and inspired by the work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) collective and the Ecoversities Alliance.
Erica Bucci
Erica Bucci (she/her) has always found it easier to speak through images than with words. She currently practices as an art therapist and licensed professional counselor on the ancestral land of the Lenni Lenape Nation, colonized as the Philadelphia region of Pennsylvania. As a person of European ancestry and living in a white body, she is on a lifelong journey of unlearning and undoing toxic white culture in herself. She seeks to join and facilitate change with others in this work in an effort to rebuild a new culture of care and connection. She is guided and galvanized by the work of Resmaa Menakem and Somatic Abolitionism, White Awake, and EmpowR Transformation.
Marilee Jolin
There is nothing Marilee loves more than words – except using words to make the world better. That’s why she loves her work as an editor & book coach so much. Marilee uses her skills as a wordsmith to enhance the clarity, effectiveness, and power of her clients’ writing. It’s an honor to help bring their world-changing messages to life. website
Melissa S. (Mel) Green
I’m a workaday workadyke of the north, now “retired”. Originally from Montana, I have lived since 1982 on the unceded homeland of the Dena’ina, colonized as Anchorage, Alaska. My ancestors are Finnish on my mom’s side, German/English/Irish on my dad’s. I especially take inspiration from Finnish mythology & folklore, while seeking to honor the lore & lives of the people on whose land I live.
Shannon Converse
Shannon is a certified peer counselor and peer recovery coach; she is also a person in recovery from mental illness. She currently works in the phone room, at an undisclosed location, for a crisis response hotline. Shannon is uncompromisingly Pro-Black, Queer, Inclusive, and Mindful. She probably has more tattoos on her face than you do. You can reach Shannon at shannonpaige2018@gmail.com for collaborations, emotional support, and ideas on how to use all the tofu before it goes bad.