Hello, my name is Alishia McCullough (she, her) and I am a millennial Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist and National Certified Counselor currently residing in Greensboro, North Carolina. I am also an independent published author of the book Blossoming. I have spent the past few years providing therapy to college students dealing with issues of anxiety, depression, mood issues, relationship conflict, family concerns, eating disorders and body image concerns. I also provide individual, group, and couples therapy. I am most passionate about offering therapeutic guidance towards healing and wellness primarily for black and brown folx experiencing mental health distress. I specialize in treating eating disorders and uphold the values of body justice and fat liberation within communities of color. I am passionate about anti-racism, racial healing, and decolonization. I am motivated to increase access and create spaces for black, indigenous, queer, people of color to come together and heal in ways that inspire holistic wellness and culturally inclusive informed healing. 

Outside of my clinical work, I am also the Co-Founder of the AmplifyMelanatedVoices Challenge and the Founder of The Holistic Black Healing Collective. Feel free to connect with me via Instagram @blackandembodied

Shirin is a life coach, public speaker and writer who specializes in mindfulness and mindset work.  She has been a featured wellness expert on the Today Show, Shape and Cosmopolitan Magazine. Prior to building her successful coaching business she was an award winning opera singer, performing at Carnegie Hall and The Metropolitan Opera.  

Certified by the International Coach Federation, Shirin’s holistic approach to transformation is influenced by her background in meditation, spirituality and the arts.  An inspiring and dynamic speaker, Shirin has presented at ALT Summit, Ignite Womxn Summit, Well Summit, Heal Haus and the Assemblage.  She is the co-founder of The Glow Up and Brown Girl Brunch and hosts two podcasts- Wholehearted Coaching: The Podcast and Two Girls Talking Shit.

8 AM Opening Ceremony with Harpinder Mann and Irene Lo, 30 mins via IG Live

10 AM Unlock the Story of you with Haylee Thikeo, 60 mins

2 PM Honoring Yourself: Consent and Boundaries Beyond Sex with Sydney Rae Chin, 60 mins

5 PM Beyond Survival: Building Beliefs to Thrive with Nicole Cruz, 90 mins

(All times in PST)

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 decolonize their practice, create equity for teachers of color, and build inclusive spaces in the community.

She has been featured in Speaking of Racism podcast, Yoga Journal, The Rising Woman Project, and many more. She is the creator of trainings like Embody Inclusivity and Unpacking Spiritual Bypass, and is the host of Decolonizing Yoga & Wellness, a web series featuring BIPOC leaders of color who are taking up space in the wellness industry.

She is currently the Founder of Embody Inclusivity, Co-Director of Yoga Teachers of Color, and Project Manager of Legacy Trips.

Find her on Instagram, Facebook, and Patreon.

Rebeckah Price is a wellness advocate and yoga instructor (RYT 200), that draws on her wealth of knowledge of working in underserved, marginalized, racialized, and immigrant communities in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. In 2015, Rebeckah founded irise yoga + wellness- as a way to connect, promote, bring awareness to and foster the inclusion of people of colour and other historically marginalized groups in yoga and wellness spaces. 

Rebeckah's work is rooted in an intersectional understanding of power  and harnessing the tools and resources to facilitate community change. With over 20 years in the not-for-profit sector as a Community Development and Engagement Specialist, Rebeckah has worked on and developed strategies and policies related to diversity & inclusion, equity, conflict resolution, settlement and integration and creating safe, cohesive communities. Rebeckah uses her lived experience as a Woman of Colour and her unique expertise in community development and engagement to bridge and address the gap of diversity in the wellness industry through workshops, etc

8 AM Meditation for Healing with Self-Compassion & Loving-Kindness with Ekta Hattangady, 30 mins via IG Live

10 AM Breaking Up with Diet Culture… It’s Not Us, It’s Them with Aisha Nash, 60 mins

2 PM blind Contour: Trust in Process & Body with Farah Billah, 30 mins

5 PM Intro to Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication with Meenadchi, 120 mins

(All times in PST)

Educator, Poet, Student Midwife, Doula, Asc3nding Herbalist, Reiki Master, Food Literacy Educator, Artist and Designer- Ellenie Marie Cruz uses her given and learned talents to promote the art of ancestral practices to heal self, family and community. Motivated by social justice, she has shifted from being a high school English teacher to a free agent and entrepreneur promoting radical change through holistic wellness, self-care and community building. Ellenie received her Bachelor's Degree in Secondary English Education and had a strong focus on her research of Spoken Word as a Method of Social Change and Education. Now mostly through her small business, Asc3nsion Art, she serves and impacts her community through Atabey School of Cultural Healing by offering courses that center BIPOC. She is the SOUL Organizer of the NOLA Herb Gathering, author of the poetry book Saturn Return I: Glimpses of the past. She offers tiered level herbalism classes in New Orleans/Gretna for Self identified BIPOC through the Atabey School of Cultural Healing and teaches a few classes at the Samara School of Community Herbalism.  She also travels to teach and lecture on the subjects of radical full spectrum birth work, herbalism, community care, and more in small intimate group spaces and larger conferences. Her online platforms include asc3nsionart.com, the podcast -Oshun's Garden on sound cloud.

Contact Ellenie Cruz/ Asc3nsion art

Being true to my given name, Navdeep; which literally translates into “new-light” that is what I bring into my work, the life of my clients and community. My work in healing as a practitioner and holistic wellness educator is based in my ancestral knowledge of Ayurveda, yoga and meditation woven with life skills coaching.  My journey began when I found myself  immersed in books on healing, travel, astronomy and nature as a child and mixing up herbal remedies in my mother's kitchen. My curiosity to regain my families indigenous healing practices took me back to India, where I found my spiritual path and Ayurveda. With the blessings of my teacher His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar I created Navi Gill Wellness to provide education on holistic health, reclaim & share the wisdom of Ayurveda and to revive the practice of rituals amongst women of colour. A primary focus of my practice is to decolonize wellness by creating community and accessibility to ancestral wisdom for people of colour.

I am a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and body worker, Yoga teacher and Life Skills Coach, trained in ancient Ayurvedic bodywork including Marma Chikitsa therapy and foundational Panchakarma therapies. I believe that we already possess the medicine within us to deeply heal ourselves, it has become my dharma to reconnect with the efforts of generations before me and offer the teachings authentically to those in search of healing and light.

9 AM Into the Veil with Kaitlyn Watsabaugh, 90 mins

12 PM Grounding in the Garden with Jyoti Solanki-Davie, 60 mins

5:30 PM The African Roots of Modern Medicine: Reclaiming our Connection to Wellness with Dr. Hazel Cebrun-Archie, 60 mins

(All times in PST)

Tejal quit her consumer finance job a year after her first teacher training. After returning from six months of travel and more yoga study, she learned how to budget on way lower pay (thanks to 10yrs of excel!) and dove into teaching yoga. During that first year, she worked at countless studios while creating and growing her own yoga offerings at tejalyoga.com - something she felt opened the doors of yoga to more people. The good outweighed the bad by far, but she was shocked to work in an industry seemingly of peace and love and discover a very pervasive culture of spiritual by-passing, greed, racism, narcissism, and abuse of power & privilege. She decided to use this newfound knowledge to empower herself and others.

She is the creator of abcdyogi village, an international community for any born conscientious desi yogi of South Asian descent to reclaim the yoga and mindfulness space by sharing their personal stories and practices with the world. She was featured as  19 Women of Color to Watch in the Yoga World in 2019.  Tejal also offers group vinyasa and restorative yoga classes at Humming Puppy NYC and private yoga and reiki sessions.

Tiffany Trieu is your inner child advocate and self-trust coach. She loves cartoons that explore the meaning of life and cooking food that nourishes herself and those around her.

This is how she describes her work, "I nurture your inner child by creating space for you to move, express, dance, play in the way that takes you back to the person you're meant to be."

8 AM Dipping our Toes into Pelvic Health - How Asana & Pranayama can aid in Pelvic Wellness with Nicole Kiana, 60 mins

12 PM Thriving in Sobriety with Bindi Naik, 60 mins

6 PM Shamanic Journey with Marilu Shinn, 90 mins

(All times in PST)

Prince Puja aka Puja Singh Titchkosky is a queer, non binary trans,  Indian-Canadian, yoga, meditation and music teacher based in Los Angeles, California (born in Vancouver, BC). Their work focuses on helping people tune into the power of the Universe, slow down, practice presence and find their unique voice in order to more fully and joyfully express themselves in any and all areas of their life.

Puja teaches private and public yoga and meditation classes and leads monthly kirtans in LA (all currently online). They also lead kirtan trainings as well as offer workshops incorporating asana, meditation, pranayama, kirtan, philosophy, etc.

Prince Puja writes, records and produces both kirtan and pop music and you can find their music on all streaming platforms.

Andrea Jin is one of the fastest rising comics in Canada. Born in Shanghai, China, she immigrated over with her family at 10 years old. She taught herself English through watching comedy on TV. Her act speaks to her experiences as a 24 year old Asian Canadian woman. Andrea uses subtle, yet hard-hitting punchlines throughout her stories and observations about her family, friends and love life to establish a genuine connection with the audience.

Andrea has performed at JFL42, JFL Northwest, SiriusXM’s Top Comic (National Finalist), Seattle International Comedy Competition (Semi-Finalist), and is part of both the 2019 and 2020 JFL Northwest ‘Best of the West’ Comedy Album. She is set to tape a televised stand-up set at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2020 for CBC. Her debut comedy album 'Grandma's Girl' produced by 604Records is set to be released in June of 2020. Andrea regularly performs at her home club Yuk Yuk’s Vancouver, and tours all over.

Farah Billah is a contemporary artist & poet from Sacramento, CA.

She paints, draws & writes because the world is a strange place & she was given hands. Her work is heavily influenced by surrealism, the outrage of the planet, womanhood, the festivity of both Bangladesh & New Orleans, & the very personal violence of it all. Her work is a quiet attempt at honesty. (also blah blah something about survival). Current work includes sculpture, plaster casting her face, shari fabric work, performance and video, linework, & a whole lot of chrysanthemums.

Farah is currently scraping out the inside of her brain (& pursuing her MFA in painting & drawing) in New Orleans, LA.

9 AM Guarding Your Light: Practices for Protecting Your Energy with Annisha Lashand, 30 mins via IG Live

10 AM What I Learned at 13: A Personal Reflection & Creative Expression Workshop with Priyanka Saju, 75 mins

12:30 PM Negotiation Is Not 50/50 with Siobhán Stergis, 90 mins

5 PM Closing Ceremony with Harpinder Mann and Irene Lo, 90 mins (special guest to be announced)

(All times in PST)

Harpinder Mann (she/her) is a Sikh-Buddhist Punjabi-American yoga and meditation teacher currently living in New Orleans. As a Co-Creator of Womxn of Color Summit, Harpinder is a Summit Host and Workshop Facilitator that will be guiding the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

Irene Lo (she/her) is a Taiwanese-Canadian Asana Facilitator and forever yoga student. Her mission is to teach in honour of the lineage of Krishnamacharya while showing up for herself and community. She has 200 hours of yogic training with the Lila School of Vinyasa. As a Co-Creator of Womxn of Color Summit, Irene is a Summit Host and Workshop Facilitator that will be guiding the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.