Aillie McKeever is a Listener Poet with over 20 years of experience in higher education. In her listening practice with students and poemees, she attunes to the energy beneath words and gazes—as Hafez suggests—with a full moon in each eye.

Anne Marie Wells is an award-winning and Pushcart-nominated poet as well as a playwright, memoirist, and oral storyteller.

Avni Vyas is a poet and professor living in Florida. She is the author of Little God (Burrow Press, 2021) and the chapbooks Far From Glorious Feeling (TOA, 2021) and When I Was a Barefoot Cloud (Anhinga, 2024).

Camilla Barber is a Community Coordinator and Dance Fitness Instructor, supporting accessible wellness across New York City.

Carina L. Dacer is a compliance professional and volunteers with healthcare center and charities. She serves as Treasurer on the board of The Good Listening Project.

Chanice Withers is an educator, poet, and proud graduate of the Certified Listener Poet program. A natural-born teacher, she shares her gift with the community through her monthly workshop, Poetry in the Park—a space for connection, creativity, and healing.

Chidube Nkiruka (1976–2024) was a Listener Poet whose work reflected his deep commitment to healing and justice. His fascination with rhythm and poetry was connected to its capacity to birth resilience, resistance, and recovery amidst those suffering from neglect, abuse, and addiction.

Chuck Behrens has been an ordained minister since 1980 and a hospice chaplain since 1994. He is a current member of the National Speakers Association and is often asked to give keynotes and lead workshops on end-of-life care, spirituality, effective communication, holding space, and compassion fatigue. 

Dawn M. Schocken is the Director for the Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation.

Devon M. Bremer is a Director of Clinical Education Administration working with medical students and physicians.

D'ete Blackshire is a facilitator and artist with a calling to create healing spaces that offer opportunities for transmuting struggle into seeds of hope.

Dylan Klempner is an award-winning journalist and multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the role of creativity in health and healing.

D. F. Tweney is a journalist, editor, poet, community builder, and publisher. He lives in the California Bay Area, where he helps tech companies tell their stories, takes care of his family, practices mindfulness in the Plum Village tradition of Vietnamese Zen, and swims in the Bay.

E. Tan is a researcher, educator, administrator, and multi-arts creative with a Ph.D. in Literature and an M.Ed. in Instructional Leadership.

Elizabeth Torres (b. 1987, Bogotá) is a Colombian-American poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist residing in Denmark.

Ellen J. Reich is a Spiritual Companion and a Process Writing Facilitator. She loves deep listening and guiding others to honor their inner critics – by sending them on vacation – so that word-play can bounce around uninterrupted and with joy.

Erin “Fitz” FitzGerald is a human who believes deeply in the healing power of generous listening. She is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and was an instructor and director of Healer's Art, a medical school course created by Rachel Remen, which utilizes generous listening as a skill to be with others' suffering and humanize medicine.

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

Gina Petersen creates through mothering, nursing, mentoring, teaching, reflecting, reading, writing poetry, listening, and exploring nature with her husband, dog Rosie, newly born son, family, dear friends and the souls she meets on the sojourns of her days.

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.

Gregory Gray is an Air Force Veteran.

Heather Coats is a Nurse Practitioner and Director of Research at Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.

Jennifer Chassman Browne has been an educator for over 25 years, and has since founded New Ground Educational Consulting, a DEI consulting company with an emphasis on disability. She delivers keynote presentations and develops and facilitates workshops related to disability and inclusion.

Jo Linder, MD recently retired after serving for more than a decade as Assistant Dean for Students/Director of  Student Affairs in Maine Medical Center’s Department of Medical Education.

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.

Julia McDonald (She/They) is a Maine-based physician, writer, and international humanitarian. McDonald’s writing has appeared in mainstream news media as advocacy for patients and commentary on the intersection of politics and medicine.

Julie Jenson is a qualitative researcher, strategic advisor, writer and poet based in London. She works globally across pharmaceuticals, medical technologies, and public and private healthcare systems.

Kaitlin Dyer is a born-Appalachian, raised-Midwestern, transplanted-Californian queer poet. She’s the author of Alter Lives of Alter Egos (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) and her poetry has appeared in journals such as Witness, Crab Orchard Review, and PANK, among others. Forthcoming work is expected from Appalachian Review and Cimarron Review. Follow her at kaitlindyer.com.

Kathryn West (she/her) is a social worker and health communications professional who lives and works in the Chicagoland area.

Kelsey D. Mahaffey is a Nashville poet who keeps half her heart in New Orleans. Her work can be seen in: Deep South Magazine, Pinch, and Cumberland River Review, among others. No Fault of Water is her debut chapbook.

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

Latasha Drax is a self-published poet and writer from Brooklyn, New York. She uses her poetic voice for creative expression, advocacy, and awareness of social injustices.

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.

Matt McBride is an Assistant Professor of English.

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.

Monica Storss is a poet and researcher whose work on Relationality and Emerging Technology is based out of Northeastern University and MIT.

Nancy S. Scherlong, LCSW, CHHC, SEP, CP, PTR/CJT, CM is owner of the psychotherapy, coaching and training business entitled Change Your Narrative LCSW PLLC. She is a corporate wellness educator, coach and trauma therapist trained in the methods of EMDR, SE, IFS, MBSR, DBT, narrative medicine, poetry, journal therapy and is a certified psychodramatist.

Nicole “Nix” Demos, a disabled inclusive educator for over 32 years, and now author, strives to educate on the importance of inclusion, disability identity, advocacy, equity, and belonging.

Rebecca Wilson (she/her) is a cultivator of creativity, queer poet, curious observer, and soulful storyteller, uniquely gifted at bringing people together, speaking gently to harsh realities, and stirring transformation.

Sailaja Devaguptapu is a published poet, writer and researcher, wellness facilitator, designing and developing courses on Health Humanities; a practitioner and trainer of Heartfulness; and an organizer and trainer for programs and workshops related to wellness, arts, writing & poetry in the context of healthcare and mental health.

Salaam Green is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Birmingham, Alabama (2024–2026), a native of Greensboro, and founder of The Literary Healing Arts. A storyteller and healer, she is a Kellogg Foundation Racial Healing Facilitator and Alabama Humanities Foundation Road Scholar.

Sharon Dardis is a recently retired RN, BSN, and hospice and children’s bereavement coordinator.

Sibihan Lawrence is a London-born Performance poet, Certified Listener Poet, Theatre maker, Arts Education Specialist, Storyteller. And a dismantler of master-narratives.

Sophie L. Schott is a medical student, researcher, and writer based in Houston, Texas. Her scholarly work bridges clinical education and advocacy, aiming to strengthen medical training through inclusive, justice-oriented curricula.

Tara Waudby is a middle school principal, inspired by the power of listening through poetry.

Té Speight is a community builder with a current focus on adult and young men’s health.

Zina Mercil is a lover of people, connection, compassion, words, artistic expression, and life. In her roles she specializes in increasing personal awareness, growth, and performance while decreasing burnout and health consequences.