Inside The Future Is Accessible On-Demand Conference, we have an incredible line-up of speakers who shared everything from accessibility for caregivers and parents, to neurodivergence, to gender and sexuality.
We center the voices of people marginalized by global systems of supremacy: Black, Indigenous, and people of color, queer, trans, impoverished, undocumented, disabled, neurodivergent, and fat who are fighting for the rights of all.
Faith helps organizations cultivate the value-driven, diverse teams they need to consistently deliver on their business and social impact promises.
Faith started her career as a computer programmer on Wall Street, but quickly identified her passion for teaching. Her fascination with human motivation and her personal experiences as a mom of a child with autism led to her doctoral studies in performance psychology. She has also taken her talents a step further, writing a best-selling book and becoming the Co-founder/CEO of an educational organization helping families with autistic children.
Faith’s academic research and her numerous experiences with organizational teams have helped her curate a high-touch, systematic approach to human thriving and teamwork in the workplace, which has helped her clients improve operations, maximize productivity, and double their revenue.
Tiana Dodson: Fat Liberation is About Accessibility
Tiana Dodson is a fat, Body Liberation Coach and Facilitator who’s out to destroy the belief that you have to be skinny to be happy and healthy, loveable, or worthy. Through her work with the Fat Freedom Foundation program, she guides people feminine-of-center to reconnect with their bodies, destigmatize fatness, and learn about the harms of health being a measure of worth... all while finding how they can live their best fat lives.
Estephanie Martinez: Countergrowth: Strategies for Community Healing
Estephanie comes from paths winding through Venezuela to Boston to Maine and beyond. Her identity is rooted in re-membering her cultural traditions while practicing and sharing decolonization and deep nature connection work. She is committed to tending land and community and to uplifting the deep nature connection inherent in all people, but especially urban folks, BIPOC folks, and anyone who feel like these ancestral skills are hard to access. She believes nature is our pedagogy and deepening our connection to nature is an avenue for anti-racism and social justice.
Graeme Seabrook: Parental and Caregivers' Accessibility
Graeme Seabrook is a writer, maternal mental health advocate, and community leader who helps moms learn to embrace their own humanity. As a certified life coach and founder of The Mom Center, an online community exclusively for moms, she’s coached over 3,000 moms on how to place their names at the top of their priority list, without guilt or shame.
Graeme’s message moves beyond the traditional themes of finding work-life balance and improving productivity for moms, and takes a 360 degree look into strategies that encourage their complete mental and emotional wellness. This includes interrogating motherhood through an anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-racist lens.
Graeme’s work is inspired by her own experience with recovering from a traumatic birth and battling postpartum depression, when she became a mom for the first time. Her goal is to help moms change the world for themselves and their families by creating micro-revolutions in their own homes.
Meg Lightheart: Making Space for Gender in the Workplace
After working for almost two decades as a personal and organisational coach and facilitator, Meg is now the service manager for Indigo Gender Service, the pioneering NHS pilot trans health service for Greater Manchester. Indigo is innovating a new model of care, based in GP primary care, lead by and for trans people. A specialist in working with changemakers on complexity and mess,
Meg is also the host for the Leadership Evolution learning marathon, a 26-week peer led adventure starting in September for a cohort of 11 plus Meg! Meg is constantly thinking about and educating herself on the connections between adult development, climate justice and social justice, learning the ways that the grip of white supremacist patriarchal capitalism can be loosened and dismantled. Meg is a white, non-disabled, queer trans woman author, a reliable bread baker, an unreliable knitter and a daily meditator and napper.
You can find her as MegALightheart on most major platforms.
Sharyn Holmes: A Candid Conversation on Inclusive Leadership
Sharyn Holmes (she/they) is an award-winning leadership and inclusion coach, intuitive mystic, speaker, artist, writer, creator of Witchuition® and the CEO of Formidable Voices. Their work dives deep into social justice, spirituality and personal sovereignty. Sharyn is passionate about anti-oppression, anti-racism, creating inclusive spaces and businesses.
Their work includes the Unpack Your Privilege® framework, Witchuition® Immersion and the Inclusive Leaders Collective. She leads transformative coaching circles guiding others to bring sacred activism, inclusion and conscious leadership to the heart of their lives and businesses. She is also on the Advisory Board of Feminist Coach Academy.
Elinor Predota: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Self in the Workplace
Elinor Prędota is a teacher, facilitator, storyteller, coach, and founder of Resilient Activists, through which el provides learning and support for the inner and outer work of social, economic and environmental justice.
Elinor’s definition of what activism is has always been broad: not a special sphere separate from everyday life, but part of who we are and what we do, individually and together. Els journey with activism and els journey with faith & healing have always been connected: the personal is political; the political is personal; and the personal includes inner work and spiritual life, as well as identity and lived experience.
Elinor has a long and wide-ranging background in community and organisational development, spiritual counselling and ritual work, storytelling, and teaching in both formal and informal education. El is a Witch, an Interfaith Minister, and a Priest/ess/x; a queer, genderqueer, bisexual dyke; white, English, mostly middle class; chronically ill, disabled, and neurodivergent; a middle-aged, assigned female geek; and an aspiring race traitor. El lives in rural southern Scotland with els girlfriend and dog.
Jin & Alia Zeng: Learnings from Living with Invisible Illness & Trauma
Jin & Tessa Zeng are co-creating Another Way, a visionary framework dedicated to shifting how we do the work that matters. They facilitate community rituals for ushering in new paradigms of doing and being, including monthly "co-working softer" sessions for anyone who wants to approach their To-Do list differently. They also help folx explore their embodiment of purpose in the context of collective change. Get access to this converation at The Future is Accessible On-Demand Conference.
Karen Larbi: Ancestral Lessons on Accessibility & Reclaiming Our Power
Karen Larbi is an activist, trainer, facilitator, writer, event producer and emerging public speaker based in the United Kingdom. She is a Trainer at Campaign Bootcamp, a charity dedicated to ensuring that people most impacted by injustice lead campaigns that affect their lives. An aspiring ecowomanist, she is the Founder of POC In Nature, an online platform dedicated to helping people of colour explore the healing power of nature, environmental justice and land-honouring ancestral traditions, and is an England Advisory Committee Member at the RSPB, the UK's largest nature conservation charity.
Karen is also a recovery and mental health advocate, formerly working at Rethink Mental Illness on the Time to Change campaign, a world-leading anti-stigma campaign, and is the Co-founder of Black Woman Heal United Kingdom, the UK chapter of an international movement to help Black women heal and reclaim their spirits, minds and bodies from the effects sexual abuse and violence. She provides consultancy and experiential training on power and privilege, supporting access to nature for under-represented groups, mental health and intersectionality, and is passionate about exploring the intersections of social justice, spirituality, recovery and ecology.
Anuradha Kowtha: Frameworks for Accessibility in Late-Stage Capitalism
Anuradha Kowtha, a catalyst, educator, and Chief Liberation Strategist, who works with small businesses and organizations to liberate their essence so they can meet these uncertain times with resilience and courage. Anuradha’s journey working across both public and private sectors has led me to see systemic issues like hierarchy and exploitation and find ways to address systemic issues at their root cause. The thread that runs through Anuradha’s work is illuminating and liberating individuals and small teams from the indoctrination and cookie-cutter thinking that comes from capitalism and colonialism, so they can provide bold and innovative solutions rooted in justice to their clients.
