Danielle Jones (she/her)
Portland, OR Danielle is a weaver of Earth-based, anti-racist and somatic practices designing frameworks, systems and learning opportunities for K-adult learners. Bringing her full self to the work means nestling within the intersection of education, health, sustainability, spirituality and culture. She believes that centering healing and interconnection is necessary for us to transform our systems, […]
Sonya E. Pritzker
Sonya E. Pritzker is the Living Justice Project Director. She is an anthropologist and practitioner of Chinese medicine as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Her research includes studies of language, emotion, and the body; intimacy, self-development, and cultural change in China; and embodied social engagement […]
Rae Johnson (they/them)
Rae Johnson PhD, RSW, RSMT (they/them) is a social worker, somatic movement therapist, and scholar/activist working at the intersections of embodiment and social justice. Rae’s approach to their work is informed by decades of frontline work with homeless youth, women in addiction recovery, psychiatric survivors, and within queer communities. Prior to their current appointment as […]
Baili Gall (she/her)
Tuscaloosa, AL Baili is the former graduate research assistant on the Living Justice Project with training in anthropology, trauma-informed care, healing centered pedagogy, embodied social justice, and public health. She is currently applying this training in her role at the Tuscaloosa SAFE Center as the Outreach and Education Coordinator for sexual assault survivors in West […]
Corrie Lapinsky (she/her)
St. Paul, Minnesota Corrie Lapinsky is a former attorney who has held leadership roles in national companies and local nonprofit organizations and now brings her decades of experience in constructive communication, conflict transformation, and relational leadership to her work on social justice initiatives. This work, through Interstanding, Inc., focuses on personal and collective transformation, anti-racism […]
Easton Davis (he/him)
Syracuse, NY Easton Davis is a doctoral candidate in the Cultural Foundations of Education (CFE) department at Syracuse University and is pursuing certificates of advanced study (CAS) in Women’s and Gender studies, and Disability Studies. By centering the well-being of Black bodies, Easton’s research interest seeks to move towards an understanding of racial and emotional […]
Zea Leguizamon, RSMT/RSME (she/her)
Loveland, CO Zea is currently completing their master’s in Somatic Mental Health Counseling, emphasizing Dance Movement Therapy at Naropa University. Prior, Zea attended the Process Work Institute where she did graduate work on embodied conflict resolution. She is also cross-trained in 15 somatic methodologies. Formerly a non-profit consultant, Zea has worked at the intersection of […]
Dr. Samuel Leguizamon Grant (he/they/we)
Minneapolis & Boulder, CO Sam has a thirty-plus year history of utilizing critical participatory action research on the intersectionality of racial, cultural, economic, gender, environmental and geographic justice. He has worked with and through formations from the grassroots level to state government, and from community-based initiatives to those of national and international scope. Through organizing […]
Shawn Shafner (he/they)
Washington D.C. Shawn is a joyous, loving, thoughtful and creatively juicy human being, looking for like-minded folks to make fun and mayhem. Shawn tries to lead with his heart. Meanwhile, his brain is especially good at putting disparate elements together in new ways, seeing the big picture, strategizing, and getting people to take action. He […]
shiloh burton (they/them)
Albuquerque, NM shiloh burton’s passion, purpose and practice is storytelling and the medium remains secondary. As a social practice artist with photographic origins, they possess 30+ years experience in a variety of visual, audio and digital mediums. They craft contexts to activate audience participation and honor our contradictory, messy and beautiful lived experiences to reflect, […]