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Tasneem Nathari aka Hoodrat Feminist

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Tasneem Nathari (she/her), also known as Hoodrat Feminist, is a Hip-Hop head, R&B diva enthusiast, and multimedia artist from East Orange, New Jersey. Tasneem started her Hoodrat Feminist FB and @hoodratfeminist Instagram account while taking a Womanist/Black Feminist Theatre course at her university taught by Ebony Noelle Golden. She had taken feminist courses before, but those courses focused mainly on the experiences of cis-gender, heterosexual white women; not taking the experiences of women, femmes, and non-binary folks who exist on the margins into account. In an attempt to make feminism more accessible, Tasneem took to the internet.

In addition to growing an internet following, Tasneem creates music, she co-directed a film titled, Mommy Never Told Me which discusses how Black women are introduced to love and sex and how that introduction sets the framework for their experiences thereafter, and she hosts a podcast, The Pleasure Pusher with Mahogany Brown, all while continuing to be a student of Black Feminist Thought.

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Nkenge Jazz Browner

Organizing Director, Mothering Justice

As organizing director Nkenge coordinates community conversations with mothers of color to understand what the community needs are, using their life experiences to determine what to ask of legislators.

Nkenge has an extensive background in community organizing.

She served as fundraising chair for Black Lives Matter Detroit. She co-organizes a national community baby shower that specifically serves Black mothers. Before coming to Mothering Justice, Nkenge was employed as a prevention specialist for Intimate Partner Violence and advocated for trafficking survivors who experienced homelessness in Detroit. 

Nkenge believes that being a Black woman is a political experience within itself and organizing mothers of color will create the equitable society activist dream of.

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Tanya Faison is the founder of Black Lives Matter Sacramento, a grassroots organizer, a frequent media commentator, a known figure in the streets as well as among local politicians. Despite her accolades she remains radical, ungovernable, and consistently centering the most marginalized of Black people in her constant fight for Black liberation. She is an expert in local government and law enforcement. She fights for those forces to be held accountable. She created Sacramento’s Abolish & Rebuild, which works to create alternatives to law enforcement. She is also the founder of Allies of Black Lives Matter Sacramento, in which she leads non-Black allies in their work to decolonize their own white supremacy and to show up for Black Liberation.

Tanya has organized and led actions with hundreds of attendees. Tanya is and will always be an abolitionist, but working with existing systems is also necessary for Black liberation and Tanya has accomplished much in this field. She has contributed to Sacramento law enforcement wearing mandatory body cameras and releasing the footage to the public within a time limit, to Sheriff Scott Jones losing his congressional bid, and to stopping Scott Jones from dismantling the position of Inspector General (a position appointed to oversee his department) when the Inspector’s findings didn’t agree with him.

She is a fierce leader who always chooses the path of resistance with a flair for organizing and public engagement.

Preston Mitchum (he/him) is a Black and queer civil rights advocate, writer, and public speaker who uses critical thinking and intersectionality in his writing and analyses. He brings both legal and policy experience to his role as the Director of Policy of URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity. As Director of Policy, Preston shapes state and federal strategies and policies that center the voices and leadership of young people in the South and Midwest. 

Prior to joining URGE, Preston served as Senior Legal and International Policy Analyst with Advocates for Youth, the Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Health and Gender Equity, the Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable S. Pamela Gray and the Honorable Errol R. Arthur, and was a Policy Analyst with the Center for American Progress’ LGBT Research and Communications department.  In addition to his work at URGE, Preston is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center teaching LGBT Health Law and Policy, is an active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., is the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Collective Action for Safe Spaces. 

Preston was also the first openly LGBTQ Chair of the Washington Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.  Preston is an accomplished author publishing both scholarly work and social commentary for many outlets and law review journals including The Atlantic, Think Progress, The Root, Slate.com, Huffington Post, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, North Carolina Central University School of Law’s Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Law Review, and others. Preston has also appeared on Al Jazeera English and Fox News.  He received his Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from Kent State University; his J.D., with honors, from North Carolina Central University School of Law; and his LL.M. in Law and Government from American University Washington College of Law where he specialized in Gender and Law.  

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Episode #42 The Full Set w/ Kari A. Conley

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Kari A. Conley, is a spoken word poet and author that resides in the city of Richmond, Virginia.

First published in a local newspaper during her childhood, Conley continued to hone the craft into adulthood. In 2015, after taking on the stage name, Poetically Speaking, she debuted her first public spoken word performance. One of her poetic highlights was her appearance at the original Apachè Cafe in Atlanta, Georgia, with poet, hip-hop artist, and activist Yarima Karama. She was featured on his cd on the track “Contradictions in Love and Pain”. 

Chosen as a featured artist to perform during The Black Poetry Cafè Festival, Conley captivated the audience with her style that is honest, raw and edgy. Conley has went on to host and co-host online poetry shows on the Talkshoe and Blogtalk networks including: Fusion Radio, Feel The Vibe and The Vault.

Her published works include two books: Out Of The Storm and Fingertip Foreplay which were released in 2015 and 2016 respectively.

While acknowledging that poetry is her therapy, she states, “I believe that poetry is where love and spirituality are fused, where joy and pain meet, and where silent screams are heard. It is also within these lines I am completely free so it is here, within each piece that you will find pieces of me...”

Episode #41 The Full Set sits with Parenting is Political

Mo (they/them) is a queer gender non-binary person and Jasmine (she/her) is a queer cisgender person. Together they raise their blended family in Arkansas where things are always political.

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Shavonda Sisson, Black woman, radical change maker, mother, and Black Joy Curator currently works as the Director of Ally and Alumni Programming with Public Allies Milwaukee. Shavonda is an alumna of Public Allies Milwaukee and embodies its mission working in all aspects of her life to creating a just and equitable society and the diverse leadership to sustain it.

A certified member of the Bey Hive, Shavonda is also the co-host of the podcast 'That's What She Said' with her co-host tee as they dissect pop culture, politics, and relationships from a social justice perspective. Recognizing the strength of network and clarity of her voice Shavonda has leveraged her social media platform to launch Love On Black Women a people-driven fund that disburses 100% of all funds raised directly to Black women of Milwaukee who have identified a need for financial support. Since its launch in February 2019, Love on Black Women has helped families secure housing, educational expenses, access medication, filled refrigerators, and provided support for women escaping intimate partner violence.

If given the opportunity, ask Shavonda about self- care, #marrylarry, her 3 teenage sons, and the ministry of brunch.

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Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis is a licensed psychologist, ordained minister, and sacred artist who has worked nationally and globally to provide relief and empowerment to marginalized persons. Dr. Thema, a professor at Pepperdine University, is a past president of the Society for the Psychology of Women. Her contributions to psychological research, policy, and practice have been honored by national and regional psychological associations.

Dr. Thema earned her doctorate from Duke University, completed her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center, and is a past American Psychological Association representative to the United Nations.

She has served as a mental health media consultant for numerous print, radio, and television media outlets, including but not limited to the Huffington Post, NPR, CBS, Oxygen, CNN, BET, TV One, Lifetime, and We TV.

Dr. Thema has edited and co-edited books on recovery from sexual violence, spirituality and religion in women’s lives, and womanist and mujerista psychologies. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed books Tweets for the Soul: When Life Falls Apart, Thriving in the wake of trauma: A multicultural guide, Mangos and Manna and The Birthing of a Lioness and is the recording artist on the CD Sky: An upbeat black girl’s song. Her work is based in an interdisciplinary understanding of spirituality, gender, culture and psychology.

Dr. Thema received her doctorate from Duke University in Clinical Psychology with a focus on the cultural context of trauma recovery, as well as the intersection of gender and racial identity. She completed her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center’s Victims of Violence Program. From 2001-2004, she served as Sr. Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of the Princeton University SHARE Program, a counseling, education, training, and policy program aimed at addressing assault, harassment, and abuse. Dr. Thema was a faculty member at Lesley University in Boston and then the California State University of Long Beach. She is a tenured professor of psychology at Pepperdine University where she teaches on Trauma in Diverse Populations and Clinical Skills. She is a contributing author in the books The Psychology of Racism, The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women, and Featuring Females: Feminist Analyses of the Media.

Dr. Thema served for three years as an American Psychological Association representative to the United Nations where she advocated for mental health and human rights globally. She served for an additional three years to the Committee on International Relations in Psychology; during that time she was elected chairperson and spear-headed initiatives in response to the crisis in Darfur. She was appointed the Global and International Issues Chairperson for the Society for the Psychology of Women and later became president of the Society for the Psychology of Women, creating the society’s first film, CEU online program, task force on the trafficking of women, and task force on spirituality and religion in women’s lives.

Dr. Thema is a trained dancer and actress, having completed studies at The Baltimore School for the Arts, The Peabody Institute, The Liberian National Cultural Arts Center and the Boston University Theater Institute. From 2000 - 2001, she was the Artistic Director of the Blackout Boston Arts Collective and won the Nuyorican Queen of Slam competition, and has coached poets across the country. Her play entitled Upbeat was performed in New York at the Urban Arts Theater Festival in 2003.

Dr. Bryant-Davis is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She leads a community mental health bible study at Walker Temple AME Church in Los Angeles and lives by words from her mother, Rev. Cecelia Williams Bryant, who states “God is speaking. My life is God’s vocabulary.”

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Elle Hearns is both the Founder and Executive Director of The Marsha P. Johnson Institute and an accomplished writer published by The CUNY Law Review and Ebony magazine. ‬ Her work has been profiled and featured by Posture Magazine, CNN, MTV, The New York Times,Time, Democracy Now, Fusion, Essence Magazine, Telesur TV and The Washington Post.  

Prior to founding MPJI, Elle served as a founding strategic partner to the BLM Global network where she also formerly worked as the interim organizing director. She previously served on the board for Million Hoodies Movement for Justice and is the lead advisor to The Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center. Elle splits her time between her hometown of Columbus,Ohio and New York City.

MF Akynos is the founder of the Black Sex Worker Collective, author, performance artist, filmmaker and an educator in the fields of sexuality, and HIV rights. As the current director of the Black Sex Worker Collective she has convened public art actions in New York City for International Whores Day (June 2, 2018) and for International Sex Worker Rights Day in March 2018 in response to the passage of repressive Federal legislation restricting online speech, she has represented US sex workers at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, and has raised funds for marginalized sex workers directly impacted by the current political climate in the United States.

She has advised other non-profit organizations including Desiree Alliance, where she has spearheaded the arts track for the national conference, and the Best Practices Policy Project, where she works on UN Policy relating to women at the Commission on the Status of Women and during the Universal Periodic Review of the human rights record of the United States at the Human Rights Council. She is also the founder of the production company “Little women, BIG HAIR” through which she has developed and presented numerous creative works addressing the intersections of Blackness and sexuality including Darkie: Black Aesthetics (a multi-media variety show), THICK (a variety zaftig revue), Dark, Nude Storytellers (spoken word review) and Koffee (a burlesque troupe).

Akynos has performed at the NYC Burlesque Festival, the Berlin Burlesque Festival and in many other venues. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Goddard College and is currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Art (MFA) in performance at the same institution. She has published her work at A Kiss For Gabriela and has a co-authored peer reviewed publication in The Handbook of Sex Work Research (Routledge, 2018).

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