Sandhya’s multiracial, multicultural, multinational upbringing shaped them for their lifetime in anti-oppression and Diversity/Equity/Inclusion. Sandhya has fifteen years’ experience as an anti-oppression trainer and has consulted with corporations, nonprofits, institutions of higher education and religious organizations during that time.

Because of their background in community organizing, they bring a distinct approach to anti-oppression work in supporting the creative collective work of DEI and anti-oppression teams within organizations to experience sustainable institutional change with maximum collective buy-in. As well as writing and singing, Sandhya’s favorite pastime is sharing a cup of tea with a good friend (or watching an episode of Avatar the Last Airbender for the twentieth time).

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Kevin Skipper serves the Ahimsa Collective as a facilitator for the Victim Offender Dialogue (VOD) program. He previously served as a volunteer facilitator for the Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG) in San Quentin State Prison. Kevin combines his 30+ years of financial services consultation and 17 years as a real estate broker as a platform for addressing historical harm and creating a pathway to equity and social justice.

A California native and lifelong Bay Area resident, he understands the connection between acknowledging harm, creating accountability, and setting the stage for equity inclusion and collaboration as a basis for building strong healing communities. He is a father of three and a grandfather of two. He loves yoga, good food, and exceptional conversation.

Conly Basham is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist working with Bay Area elders and youth. She has a background in theater performance, arts based facilitation, and an MA in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy.

Currently a PHD candidate in Expressive Arts at the European Graduate School at Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Conly is dedicated to exploring the intersections of Expressive Arts and restorative practices towards the acknowledgement of power and privilege, collective healing and communal peacebuilding.

Candice is a proud Afro-Latine native of Watts, CA. They have worked at the crossroads of education, social justice and healing for 16 years.

Candice earned their undergraduate degree in Humanities and Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, earned a secondary teaching credential from Alliant University, and a Masters in East-West Psychology at the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS). Candice is certified as a trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness instructor through the Niroga Institute, and has also completed training in mesoamerican curanderismo.

Candice believes that ancestral, community and ecological healing are the most urgent issues of our time. They coach administrators, train teachers and lead professional development at schools throughout the nation, in addition to teaching in the Teacher Education department at the University of San Francisco and seeing clients for therapy. When she is not working or studying, Candice enjoys time in nature with her six year old gender creative child.

www.candicerosevalenzuela.com
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Tatiana Chaterji is a participatory theater artist, restorative justice practitioner, youth organizer and educator. Grounded in knowledge of self and ancestors, she holds deep commitment to dismantling systemic oppression while tending to spiritual, psychic, and interpersonal wounds. She is a youth advocate around military recruitment/counter militarism, alternatives to incarceration, and ethnic studies. Tatiana learned theater in the streets of her community, inspired by Bengali performance protest traditions and liberatory possibilities of ritual and celebration.

She develops cultural resistance strategies with leaders across people’s movements for justice and dignity. As a survivor of violence and traumatic brain injury, performance, for Tati, is a sacred act of being witnessed by community. Nourished by working class solidarity, anti-imperialist agitation, and queer feminist revolt, she loves to write plays and poetry. You can find her riding her bike, studying martial arts, and choreographing fight sequences to flip the social prescriptions of violence, reclaim power, and reach catharsis.

www.tatianachaterji.com