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Sanderia Faye is the author of the novel, Mourner’s Bench, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in debut fiction, The Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit for fiction, and The 2017 Arkansas Library Association, Arkansiana Award. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Southwest Review and several other publications.

She received a doctor of philosophy, PhD, in English from the University of North Texas, and serves on the creative writing faculty at Southern Methodist University. She is co-founder of Kimbilio Center for Fiction, Co-Leader at Pen America DFW, founder of LitNight Reading Series, and Executive Director for the Dallas Literary Festival.

 

Sally Wen Mao is the author of two collections of poetry, Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and an NEA fellowship, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at the George Washington University, and a Lannan Foundation Resident in Marfa, Texas. She has taught poetry at Cornell University, The George Washington University, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College MFA program, Catapult, Poet’s House, and the 92 Street Y, among other places. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, Harpers Bazaar, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Guernica, and A Public Space, among others. She is a Kundiman fellow in both fiction and poetry, and most recently, she was a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.

 
Dr. Taqueena Quintana is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), national certified counselor (NCC), approved clinical supervisor (ACS), board certified telemental health counselor (BC-TMH), counselor educator, author and consultant. She has over 12 years experience in education and counseling within various settings including K-12 institutions, colleges/universities, private practice, military installations, hospitals, and community mental health agencies. Dr. Quintana is dedicated to supporting and preparing the next generation of professional counselors to serve historically excluded groups and communities. She has presented nationally and internationally at various counseling conferences and has published peer-reviewed articles that focus on culturally responsive practices in counseling. Her research interests include counseling military-connected youth, clinical supervision, school-based mental health, supporting students with disabilities, anti-racist counseling, and telemental health.
Dr. Quintana was awarded for her work in advocating for underserved, underrepresented and marginalized communities by the National Board of Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program. Through NBCC, she currently volunteers as a mentor for emerging professional counselors who serve similar populations. Dr. Quintana holds holds a B.A. in History with a Minor in Puerto Rican, Africana and Latin American Studies from CUNY Hunter College, an M.S.Ed. in Teaching Students with Disabilities and an M.S.Ed. in School Counseling, both from CUNY Brooklyn College, and an Ed.D. in Counselor Education & Supervision from Argosy University- Northern Virginia.
 

Kalesha D. Jenkins, PhD is a licensed professional counselor and counselor educator who specializes in multiculturalism and social justice. She recently completed her doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Jenkins has a passion for working with underserved populations, in the community and in the classroom. She promotes inclusion through teaching, scholarship and leadership. She has received multiple awards and achievements including National Board of Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Award, 2021 College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services Outstanding Doctoral Student Award and Seton Hill University’s 2021 Distinguished Alumna Leadership Award/Young Alumna Achievement.

 
Eliza Daniels, MA, LMHC, (they/she) maintains a full and active private practice on Nipmuc and Pocomtuc territory in what is now called Northampton, Massachusetts. Her clinical interests include working with LGBTQIA+ adults, local activists, healers, farmers, land-tenders and educators. Eliza enjoys clinical work centered around gender affirming therapy, exploring anti-oppression & liberation frameworks, Complex PTSD and Relational trauma, addiction, recovery, pleasure and post traumatic growth in survivors of sexual abuse.
Eliza brings 10 years of clinical experience to her teaching and private practice, having worked in community mental health, school and university settings with folks of all ages. Eliza has taught graduate-level counseling, community psychoeducation about Complementary and Alternative Medicine as adjunctive to therapy, and has led groups for adolescents and adults with ID. Eliza works with many people who have experienced traumas across the spectrum and has completed Level 1 and 2 training as an EMDR therapist working towards EMDRIA certification. Their clinical work is grounded in Relational Cultural, Experiential, Trans-feminist and Contemplative approaches.
Eliza has studied Traditional Western Herbalism for many years and affirms the connection between human and plant as an avenue for curiosity, play, pleasure, healing, and deeper understanding of our interdependent and interconnected relationships with the natural world.
When they aren’t working, Eliza enjoys long dog park adventures with their 2 dogs and partner, bumbling in their garden, fashion and adornment, hammocking, and playing soccer. Eliza engages in local community organizing and activism around the intersections of environmental justice and racial justice. They are a NonViolent Direct Action trained “peacekeeper” for protests in Hampshire County.
 

Dr. Joanne Tortorici Luna (“Dr. T.”) is an Adjunct Faculty member at Antioch. At California State University Long Beach, she is a Professor in the Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling Department and also is an interdisciplinary faculty member for the M.S. program in Emergency Services Administration in the College of Health and Human Services.  She is known nationally and internationally for her work with individuals, families, and communities in situations of armed conflict. She is a clinically practicing licensed psychologist, a first and second responder for disaster mental health, trainer, educator, and researcher. Her teaching and psychotherapeutic approaches are integrative and relationship-focused.

As a psychotherapist, her orientation is integrative, experiential, and guided by the unique body-mind needs and circumstances of the client. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, and frequently uses this evidence-supported modality, in her practice psychotherapy. Her clinical specialization areas include trauma recovery and post-traumatic growth, first-responder support, balance after war experiences, and navigation of spiritual emergence/emergency. She also serves as staff psychologist at MACH1 (Move a Child Higher) and MACH2 (Military and Companion Horses). Her work in these horse-partnered therapy programs is informed by current trauma-related brain research, human and horse psychology, and sound psychotherapeutic practices.

Dr. Tortorici Luna has a long time interest in the body-mind-spirit approach to self-healing and wellbeing. She is a student of the martial art Taijiquan.

She enjoys the study of  complementary and alternative health practices, and is a Master Reiki Practitioner / Teacher (Usui Shiki Ryoho). She provides no-cost energy healing in a local spiritual setting.

She frequently serves as a consultant and trainer regarding school crisis.  Soon after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Archdiocese of New York and the New York Chancellor asked her assistance for impacted school personnel. She provided related services for New York schools then, and for several subsequent years.

In Nicaragua, she has worked as a Counseling Psychologist, University Professor (Universidad Centroamericana, Managua), and Coordinator of Mental Health Services for a large region of the country. She was National Director of a mental health program for Nicaraguan child survivors of the war.

As a United Nations consultant, she has worked as a mental health practitioner,  trainer, evaluator, and program developer in the war/conflict zones of the Central American countries as well as in South Africa. As a UNICEF advisor, she led the development and implementation of Nicaragua’s first Peace Education Program, and the creation of South Africa’s first UNICEF Country Programme for Emergency and Long-term Humanitarian Assistance. She was an international advisor to South Africa’s Goldstone Commission for the Prevention of Political and Public Violence. Her areas of specialty include crisis response, mental health and human rights concerns in situations of armed conflict and widespread disaster.

She has worked for the Long Beach Unified School District as a school counselor, and as Violence Prevention Coordinator. She helped lead the formation, training, and management of LBUSD’s multiagency School Crisis Response Team, as well as the CSULB Volunteer Crisis Resource Team.

Dr. Tortorici Luna is a member of the National Trauma Network and EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs. She is a Trainer/Member of the Culver City Fire Department’s Community Emergency Response Team. She is a Founding Member/Trainer of the City of Long Beach’s Hate Crime Response Team. Dr. Tortorici Luna is proud to have been one of New York City’s first women cab drivers.

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