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Brooke is a self-published author, podcaster, and fearless black woman. As a 29-year-old black mother of
two, self-care, community, and black empowerment are essential. Spiritual wellness is the key to ensure
that work gets done in those respective areas. Brooke "Bee" Sanders started doing intuitive readings 3
years ago and her gifts expanded. Brooke offers various divination modalities. Tarot, Dream
Interpretation, Root Work and Ancestral Channeling help assist people in connecting to their higher self.
With over 9 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Brooke left corporate (and the
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Taj Anwar is a native Atlantan and descendant of the well-known Perrin Family (South Carolinian geechees who relocated to Atlanta after World War II). Tajhiek Anwar Baoll (Taj’s full name) is a mother, sociologist, veteran community organizer, activist, farmer, direct entry midwife and breastfeeding specialist, business owner, event organizer, panelist, initiated/ crowned Iyalosa Obatala in the Lucumi/ Santeria tradition, an Iyanifa Oloosa in traditional Isese (Ifa) and a Palera. Her businesses, events, and co-ops have refined her skills and centered them around the guiding principles of food

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A positive and inspirational professional who adapts quickly to new and changing environments.
A community leader and enthusiastic educator of men, women and children. A passionate
advocate for healthcare equity and community empowerment.

Onda Mansa was raised by an immigrant mother from La Ceiba, Honduras, in uptown New
Orleans. She began performing dance on stage at age 3 with Kumbuka dance collective under
the tutelage of Mamas Jamila, Ausettua, and Greer Goff-Mendy on the corner of Carondelet and
Dryades (now O.C.Haley Blvd). She also toured and danced with Estrella Garifuna, a local
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Charlotte Duerr James is an Educator and Medicine Woman of Afro-Caribbean and Germanic lineage. She works to create a world in which everyone is able to live in fearless pursuit of their radical transformation. She uses her skills as an educator, therapeutic coach, and ceremonial facilitator to build and engage a community focused on pursuing equitable liberation.
Charlotte has been exploring her own mind and spirit with the support of Sacred Earth Medicines for over 15 years. Most recently, she helped to co-create The Ancestor Project - a Black led pillar of education, ceremony, and integratio... Read more

New Orleans native, Shantrelle P. Lewis, a United Nations Programme for People of African Descent Fellow, is a multi-hyphen creative and scholar who accesses multiple disciplines to help elucidate African Diasporic history, aesthetics, culture, and spirituality. Her directorial debut, IN OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS premiered on NETFLIX and is distributed by Ava DuVernay's ARRAY. The film won the Shine Award for Best Film from a Philadelphia-based filmmaker at BLACKSTAR FILM FEST in 2020. Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style, her highly acclaimed first book, was published by Aperture in 2017. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, NPR, BBC, Washington Post, Slate, The New Yorker, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She co-founded SHOPPE BLACK with her husband and fellow Howard alum, Tony Oluwatoyin Lawson. Shantrelle is an initiated Lucumi Sango Priest. Also, a self-identifying Hoodooist, she can be found waxing poetics about all things African spirituality online at Beaucoup Hoodoo... Read more

Lynaya is a Cleveland, Ohio native. A long time member of Beaucoup Hoodoo she is a Churchy Hoodoo, and a Lucumi Practitioner.  She works in the educational system in Special Education, as an end of life caregiver and is a newly published author.  Her first book, My Mama Said Pray, was inspired by the life and works of her mother Leatha Ingram Ibae.  Lynaya has been working within her community as a prayer warrior most of her life.  

D. Danyelle Thomas, MPP is a Black faith and spirituality speaker, author, public theologian, spiritualist, and activist. Founder of Unfit Christian, her work and words have been featured in Rolling Stone, Essence, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Rewire.News, Splinter, & NBC News. Currently, Danyelle is penning her next book, The Day God Saw Me as Black (Row House Publishing), slated for debut in Fall 2024. She holds both a Master of Public Policy, B.A. Africana Studies from Georgia State University. Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, & Twitter via... Read more

K. Zauditu Selassie received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Baltimore and the Doctor of Arts degree from Clark Atlanta University and is a retired Professor of English. She is the author of an award-winning book of literary criticism, African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison. She has traveled the world from Compton to Cairo, from Bamako to Baltimore, and Addis to Atlanta, collecting stories along the way. A word whisperer, her literary imagination is peopled by: sex workers, women adept in making poison, root women, astral travelers, shape-shifters, maroons... Read more