Our Founding Team

has worked joyously for over 30 years creating innovative, relevant evidence based strategies to transform, empower and develop individuals, systems, organizations and contemporary thought. Her work is centered in healing practices, empowering youth and families, and self-discovery. She specializes in the field of youth development, healing informed organizational development, professional wellness and strategic fundraising consultation. Currently, Aisha works as Chief of Staff at the Black Organizing Project in Oakland, California. Additionally, she directs her own consulting company where she provides trainings, curriculum development, healing experiences, coaching, and executive leadership to local and national agencies, companies and programs.

has devoted her life’s work to educating and offering profound, life-changing experiences with a focus on integration and wholeness. She supports humans in building a deeper relationship with their body. She spent the last two decades studying psychology, trauma, human development and holistic healing practices. She’s certified in Massage Therapy at National Holistic Institute in Northern California and studied Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Her somatic therapy practice is imbued with her studies in child development, massage therapy, somatic psychology and yoga. She opened her private practice in a dance studio to offer her clients a different experience from the traditional ‘talk’ therapy practices.

is devoted to connection, authenticity, and the mystery that binds us together. She is a mindfulness and somatic-inquiry guide, singer-songwriter, and community host at Hestia Retreat Center. Having studied and spent close to a decade as a performing artist in the Pacific Northwest, she loves to champion others in the healing experience of full creative expression. Additionally, she has spent years supporting small heart-centered organizations to develop, strengthen, and broaden their reach, such as The Center for Body Trust in Portland OR and various meditation and spiritual groups. She is thrilled to be part of the Community Wellness Fund team.

is the Co-founder of Sister Warriors and an Alum of Young Women’s Freedom Center. Krea’s vision is to replace punitive and dehumanizing systems with a comprehensive new architecture that provides young people with the support and resources they need to address their trauma, and to heal and thrive. At Young Women’s Freedom Center, she worked with directly impacted girls and gender-non-confirming people who were part of the juvenile justice system, and conducted research with them to find out what their experience has been like since their detention or incarceration. She also worked with directly impacted people to close down juvenile hall in San Francisco.

is the Chief Flourish Officer of Flourish Agenda, a national social impact organization that works with youth of color, schools, youth serving organizations, foundations, and local governments to build and implement strategies that allow young people to flourish. Nedra learned from her mother the power of stepping up as a leader, working on behalf of the voiceless, and getting involved to change social conditions. Nedra previously co-founded and led Leadership Excellence, a non-profit organization which provided leadership development to African American youth. During her twenty-five years of working with youth of color, Nedra has seen the impact of internalized racism on youths’ physical, spiritual, and emotional health. She has also seen the profound individual and community impacts of racial healing and personal transformation. These firsthand experiences drive Nedra, who firmly believes that we cannot thrive as a community or larger society if the trauma of personal and institutional oppression is not addressed. Nedra received the Powerful Women Making a Difference Ebony Magazine Award in 2009 and is a 2015 Echoing Green fellow.

is a Top Producing (Selling & Listing) Agent at Corcoran Global Living, who still loves what she does after more than 30 years. Real estate allows her to combine her passionate interests in people, creativity, and business while giving her independence and flexibility. She’s a parent of grown daughters and a grandmother. She works in her community for social change, travels, reads a lot, bikes, creates art, and spends time with friends and family. She’s honest, smart, energetic, works really hard for her clients.