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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

#SDBSQUAD

Davelyn Hill- MMFT, Executive Director/ Facilitator/ Executive Team Member
Dr. Dominique Vedrine- LMFT/Facilitation Lead/ Executive Team Member
Rev. Scott Neely- Strategist & Facilitator/ Executive Team Member
Ana Parra- Board Chair
Dr. Raashad Fitzpatrick Sr- Board Member
Anne Garner- Board Member
Kristan Pitts- Board Member
Antoinette Palmer- Board Member
ShAy Black- Board Member
Dr. Tamara Johnson- Board Member
Asia Rollins- Board Member
Nat Williams- Board Member
Veronica Franklin- Board Member
Crystal Irby- Facilitator; Founder of Creators Well
Krista Hughes- Facilitator
Max Lit- Facilitator, Social Media Strategist & Admin. Support
Naomi Simmons- Facilitator
Jennifer Vasquez- Facilitator
Ashton Lee- Facilitator
The Celestial Poet (CP)- Facilitator
Jenn Alynn-Perri- Bookkeeper

spoken word poetry

dialogue

workshops

deep listening

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​Speaking Down Barriers is a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization.

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Beginnings
    • Stories from the Margins
    • Our Offerings >
      • Conflict Coaching and Mediation
      • Equity: BD&I Training
      • Community Events
      • Schedule of Events
      • Equity School
      • Trainings
      • Reading for Transformation for Kids (R4T4K)
      • #SDBSquad National Network
    • SDB Merch
    • SDB Artist Spotlight
    • FUEL THE WORK
    • Contact Us
  • Event Registration
  • Megaphones