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.

Beck Klassen is a writer and current student of Arts & Sciences at McMaster University (Class of ‘23). Beck became The Good Listening Project's first Listener Poet in 2018 when they helped pilot the program at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC.

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.

She writes a blog titled Let Me Share With You, reflecting on what it means to live a peaceful life.

Gray Davidson Carroll is a transfemme writer, educator, public health researcher, and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate connoisseur.