about

Mariah Rankine-Landers, Ed.M (she/her) is a thought leader in the fields of human potential, education, liberatory practice and social change. Her work sits at the intersection of arts, culture, and education, where she has developed a research-based, love-centered pedagogy that activates transformational experiences, guiding individuals and organizations toward deeper coherence, creative courage, and purpose-driven impact. She is co-author of Do Your Lessons Love Your Students? Creative Education for Social Change, Routledge 2024. Mariah invites both practical and mystical processes that move systems toward equity, imagination, and enduring change. She is recipient of the 2024 Sandra Bowie Award for Social Change through the national Guild. She works with dignitaries, thought leaders, cultural institutions, learning organizations, and more. Her conceptual art pieces have been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Black Woman is God, and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.

Julia Rhodes Davis is an organizer, resource mobilizer, producer, and conceptual artist. She is co-executive producer of the forthcoming storytelling initiative and podcast Tender the Future and is on the core team working to launch the Institute for Relational Repair and Mutuality. She was associate producer and impact producer for the documentary feature Acts of Reparation, a documentary feature that follows two friends as they explore what reparations means to them. She also convenes Circles of Practice across the country, and works with individuals and families towards reparative engagement, wealth redistribution, and land justice. Through this work, Julia has been witness, collaborator, guide, and participant in ongoing reparative work happening in 1:1 relationships, families, and communities. Her primary research and creative practice focuses on the ways in which reckoning with a more fulsome cultural inheritance is a crucial part of building towards collective liberation. Davis’ work is animated by her cultural inheritance; she is the descendant of both anti-racist activists and Southern enslavers.

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