ABOUT RICHAEL & JULIA

Richael Faithful (they/them) is an interdisciplinary healing justice practitioner. Richael has been in movement for twenty years; they are trained as a community organizer, licensed as a movement lawyer, initiated as a traditional folk healer, seasoned as a strategist and facilitator and celebrated as a writer and creative. Centered in their southern roots, love politic, and ancestral-futurism, Richael considers themself a part of a cohort of culture workers committed to transforming generational cycles of harm. Richael’s portfolio is partially refl ected on their website, www.richaelfaithful.com.

Julia Metzger-Traber (she/her) is a healing-centered facilitator, consultant and trainer, somatic coach, performance artist, and a mother of two. She is committed to the deep, long work of collective healing and culture change as the context for gorgeous, liberatory co-existence. She supports communities, organizations, and individuals to address racialized harms, uproot colonialism and white supremacy from their bodies, lives and structures, as well as envision change, and move toward embodying those visions with creativity, healing, love, and radical imagination. She has spent many years holding people with compassion and clarity through conflict. Julia is a certified yoga teacher, a ‘Somatic Experiencing’ practitioner in the advanced level of training and holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Transformation. Julia lives on a farm in Northern Virginia.