Jackie Vaughn (she/her) is an anti-racist organizer who organizes with Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities for reproductive justice and bodily autonomy. She is the Executive Director of SRJ (Surge Reproductive Justice) where she has built and implemented a community directed policy model. Before coming to SRJ, she was the Organizing Director for All In For Washington, a campaign focused on reforming Washington State’s upside-down tax code. Her organizing work has covered immigration justice, prison abolition, and transit equity. She is a mother and is deeply invested in birth justice for Black birthing people and building a strong community for her daughter that is safe, thriving, and affirms Black joy.

Senait Brown is an anti-racist organizer, educator and curator of Black power and pleasure spaces who is active in the movement for Black liberation. She has served as director and co-chair of multiple organizations/collectives including, BlackOut Washington, (the group formerly known as) Youth Undoing Institutional Racism, Ending the Prison Industrial Complex and the No New Youth Jail Campaign.  

Senait organizes nationally as a Core Trainer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and works as a consultant with a focus on Black power movement building, transformative organizational development and combating systemic anti-Black racism.

Asha Abena Heru is an anti racist educator, strategist, organizer, creative and artist born and raised Seattle WA. Her work centers team building, leadership and character development, with a background in prison abolition, popular education, socratic facilitation, somatic processing, and mindfulness.

She is a longterm national organizer with YUIR-PIYA (youth undoing racism Seattle/Peoples Institute youth agenda), the Tyree Scott Freedom School, No New Youth Jail Seattle, The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Black Power Epicenter, Black StarLine Educational Collective, Inside Out, amongst other community spaces committed to interrupting the violence imposed on us by our systems and institutions with a particular focus on the pathologies created from said violence. 

She stands on three generations of organizers in Seattle WA and pays special homage to her Grandparents John Eichelberger, Marlene Rowlette Eichelberger, and Elanor Johnson, Marjon Waybonkaana, Mayet Dalila, Martha Richards and her daughter Kimberley Richards, among many many more.

Linda Chastine, affectionately known as "LC," is a Black Queer Femme living, working, and building community in Seattle,WA. After graduating from Clark Atlanta University's (CAU) Whitney M. Young, Jr., School of Social Work in 2015, LC dedicated her time to working with nonprofit and grassroots organizations serving marginalized communities.

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Her work has focused on advocacy, program development, and administrative organization, particularly within BIPOC groups fighting against systemic barriers to community health and prosperity.

Linda's experience includes positions at Planned Parenthood Southeast, The Georgia Law Center for the Homeless, The Hepatitis Education Project, and African Americans Reach and Teach Health Ministry. Her commitment to reproductive justice and Black maternal health led her to serve on the board of Surge Reproductive Justice from 2020 to 2021.

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Beyond her work in health equity, Linda is a core organizer and leader with Queer the Land, a housing, land, and labor collective based in Seattle, WA. LC's expertise lies in building collective organizations through a developmental and humanistic perspective, working with individuals and organizations to align with their passion, purpose, and flow.

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Linda aspires to be a creative thought partner for those seeking to amplify their work and mission, holistically finding solutions toward regenerative and reparative change and growth for marginalized communities.

Vai Palesoo is an Visual Artist and Mentor who has 3 years of brand development, photography, and editing. Vai has over 5 years in personal development and empowerment, centering her work for Trans and Queer folk of color. Vai made her name by organizing community events for QTBIPOC folks, creating spaces for the free expression of art. She's known for her unique visual style and has maintained community by promoting resources, hosting events, mentoring up-and-coming community members and artists, and sharing her own lived experience.

Outside of work you can find her at a Ball, spending time with her chosen family, or refining her skills in Visual Arts.