Jenny Hegland is a creative facilitator, coach, and social entrepreneur whose life’s work centers around community engagement, participatory leadership, and social justice.

Ravenna Raven works as a Listener Poet at hospitals, healing centers, and national healthcare conferences. She teaches creative writing, reading development, and restorative yoga to students of all ages.

Yvette Perry is a lover of music and books, an amateur photographer, a collector of antique typewriters, and one fourth of a Marvel Cinematic Universe household that includes her husband and twin daughters.

Elizabeth Pringle explores language and the human experience through theatre and film, arts and media education, leadership coaching, and professional development.

Joseph M. Jablonski is a typewriting street poet in addition to being a Listener Poet of The Good Listening Project. As a street poet, he entertains as the “Walking Mall Poet” on the downtown pedestrian mall of Winchester, Virginia and beyond.

Zina Mercil is a lover of people, connection, compassion, words, artistic expression, and life.

Mindy Shah grew up near the shores of Lake Erie, in Ohio, and spent much of her childhood tramping around the woods and writing stories she seldom finished.

LaShaune Johnson is a public health professor, breast cancer survivor/advocate, and culturally responsive evaluator.

Geva Thole is a poet and Behavior Health Specialist living in Wisconsin.

Gray Davidson Carroll is a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places.

Leigh Finnegan-Hosey is a spiritual care provider with experience working in both higher education and health care settings. She currently serves as the pediatric and reproductive health chaplain for a large academic medical center.