​We are a team of listeners, healers, artists, researchers, teachers, theologians, & creatives who work together to offer encounters that transform our life together across human difference.

Using spoken word poetry, transformative dialogue, workshops, and deep listening as tools, we are working with people, communities, organizations, & institutions to build an equitable world through healing & justice.

Rather than our human differences of race, class, sexual orientation, gender, national identity, and religion act as sources of division, they can be the source of our collective strength.

-#SDBSquad

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#SDBSQUAD

Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul, Poet, LMSW, Founder & Director

Rev. Scott Neely, Strategist & Facilitator

Dr. Dominique Chuku, LMFT, Board Chair

Davelyn Hill, LMFT, Administrative Support

Traci Barr, Board Member

Dr. Raashad Fitzpatrick, Sr., Board Member

Ellen Clement, Board Member

Kimberly Seibles, Board Member

Ana Parra, Board Member

Crystal Irby, Facilitator & Program Director of Writers Well Youth Fellowship

Shemu'el Namaste, Facilitator

Krista Hughes, Facilitator

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