Co-Conspired Conversations

Constanza Eliana Chinea (She/Her) is a Latinx certified Yoga Instructor who has over 10 years of experience in the industry and over 300 hours of training in Yoga, trauma, and anti-racism. She began teaching and consulting after noticing a need for diversity and representation in the industry. She now teaches Yogis and entrepreneurs how to […]

Lettie Shumate is a historian, a racial and social justice activist and advocate, an educator, and a public speaker in Southeastern North Carolina. She is the host of her podcast, titled “Sincerely, Lettie”, where she educates about history and bridges the past to the present, she discusses racial and social issues, and she doesn’t hold […]

Heather Anderson is the Founder of “The Mamahood,” the largest and most diverse support group for mothers in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as “The Club,” a community for womxn entrepreneurs. With an intention to moderate her online forums through a lens of social justice, she leans heavily into the work of checking […]

Kerrie Mohr, LCSW, founder, director at A Good Place Therapy, has focused her career on seeking out solutions to individual, family, and community problems through clinical work, advocacy, policy reform, community organizing, managing teams, and building nonprofit social service programs. In addition to her psychotherapy work with individuals and couples, Kerrie oversees all aspects of […]

Rachel Hollis is known for allegedly stealing the work of women around the world. This time she plagiarized the work of Maya Angelou. When called in she gave a fake apology, was called out on Buzzfeed and used victim shifting tacts, and social media targeting to attempt to silence BIWoC. Join Lettie, Weeze, and Myisha […]

David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris (all five names for the ancestors) is an x-ray tech by trade, and a Restorative Justice Educator by passion. As the Founder of Amplify RJ, he is building a digital platform to share the philosophy, practices, and values of Restorative Justice. Now living in “Los Angelish” with his wife Wendy, he […]

Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan Jaime Blanco Jaime Blanco has lived in Oakland, California for the past 19 years and is the founder and director of Urban Mentors Network, an East Oakland based mentoring program focused on building a safe empowering community where youth and adults form reciprocal relationships, always learning from one another. Jaime […]

Britney Stafford is a music lover of many genres, writes as an emotional outlet, and loves painting with her son. She is happily married and she and her husband are the obnoxiously proud parents of a funny, energetic, and caring six-year-old. Originally from Wisconsin, she now lives with her family in Georgia. She is a […]

Nicole Lusiani Elliott is the founder and owner of Dirt Path Publishing, a small publishing house that focuses on publishing works that helps people think differently about their lives and their work. She also serves as an Assistant Director of CSET, the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching, at Stanford University, focusing primarily in the […]

Brandy Varnado is a mother, educator and entrepreneur living in the Bay Area. She is one of the contributing authors of the Book Check Your Privilege, Live Into The Work. In this episode, she shares her story of how she came into this project. Brandy began a career in education over 13 years ago in […]