Abby Ahmad is a singer, songwriter, actor, and multi-disciplinary educator based in Brooklyn, NY. As a vocal teacher and yoga/mediation instructor, Abby’s integrative teaching style merges holistic knowledge with classical technique.

Heather Gray is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Central Coast of California. She creates in the disciplines of abstract painting, photography, improvisation, and contemporary dance, blending these forms to create a perspective uniquely hers

Tara Rynders is a nurse and dancer, she has been a registered nurse for twenty years and received her Masters in Fine Arts in Dance and Somatic Practices in 2011 from The University of Colorado at Boulder and is an Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. Rynders is extremely honored to have been named a 2018 A Blade of Grass Fellow, an Arts in Society grantee, a 2019 Colorado Nightingale Luminary, a 2019 Excellence in Nursing Awardee in Compassionate Care, a 2020 Hamilton Awardee from the National Organization of Arts in Hospitals (NOAH) in the category of Arts and Resiliency, the 2021 Mara Mogenson Flaherty Memorial Lectureship from the Oncology Nursing Foundation and most recently was named the 2022 EY Next Wave Leader from the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts.

Clare is a collaborative theatre-maker and facilitator committed to justice and joy with experience teaching, directing, and devising in universities, public and private schools, professional theaters, and prisons for more than a decade. Clare is the Performance and Pedagogy Consultant for the DU Prison Arts Initiative where he started a series of play-based arts workshops for children and their incarcerated parents. clarehammoor.com

Kelly' Greenlight' Thomas is a Performance Artist, Educator, Wellness Warrior, and Cultural Organizer. For over a decade, Kelly has created performances and facilitated creative spaces around emotional health, women's narratives, and nature. She is the foundress of Black Arts Retreat, an international hub for black creativity, culture, and holistic wellness. Kelly has facilitated groups in Kenya, Brazil, Germany, Haiti, and throughout the US through this work. @blackartsretreat

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Son the owner of SonSpirited where she helps strengthen mental and emotional wellness within community through audio- visual, aromatherapeutic, colorful meditative sessions.

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Sentell Harper has worked in arts education for the past ten years. He is an actor and playwright who recently had his one man show Seek and Ye Shall Find premiere in New York City off broadway at the United Solo Festival. Sentell is the recipient of the 2014 United Solo Festival's Emerging Actor award. He was recently featured in the national media for this work, Alternative Names for Black Boys. 

Lauren Sharpe is a writer, theater artist, and educator based in Brooklyn. An alumnae of The New York Neo-Futurists, Lauren performed in their long-running show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. She appeared in the critically-acclaimed full-length piece, The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill and directed The Soup Show, a feminist theater piece that included an onstage hot tub-as-cauldron. She was a performer and collaborator for Trusty Sidekick Theater's Scurry at Lincoln Center and Jem and Stonie, a virtual in-classroom theater piece for pre-k students. She co-created, devised, and performed in the UP CLOSE Festival, an immersive theater work for families, which took place at The New Ohio Theater. 

C. is a civically-engaged artist, theater maker, urban planner, and skilled facilitator whose work inspires dialogue, connection, and community wellbeing. C. specializes in documentary theater, facilitates community-based story projects, and holds space for healing-centered dialogue. merandissime.com / @merandissime

Rita Liu is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist, mover, and healer. Originally a theatre actress, her work plays with the juxtaposition between movements and spoken words. Rita explores the connection between outer-space and inner-self and is interested in giving non-artists the agencies to speak out for themselves. rita-liu.com / @hakuna_ritata

Alison Waldman is a wellness collaborator and movement artist based in Washington, D.C. Alison builds onsite and virtual patient- and provider-facing programs based in dance, mindfulness and community building, and advises healthcare industry leaders on incorporating the arts into the culture of healthcare. As Residence Artist at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Alison co-developed the Movement for Multiple Sclerosis program with the Department of Neurology (Nightingale Award 2019), directs performances, and leads wellness breaks for staff. She delivered her TEDx talk, “Why we should be dancing with our doctors,” in 2020.