Speakers

Speaker Bureau Members

TILA’s Speakers Bureau is a transformative platform where the power of storytelling intersects with the pursuit of justice, inclusion, and healing. We honor the diverse lived experiences of activists and healers by amplifying their inspiring stories. Storytelling fosters connection, ignites compassion, and calls for solidarity. It is a call to embrace collective responsibility and build a stronger, more unified community.

Recommended Audience:

Community serving agencies, child welfare workers, teachers, advocates, youth-serving agencies, coalition members, community activists, educators, health workers, student interns, community interventionists, attorneys, law students, legal professionals, caregivers, social workers, social work/therapy/counseling students, clinicians, families. If you would like consultation or more information, please complete and submit a Speakers Bureau Request Form

MEET THE SPEAKER BUREAU MEMBERS

Afia Anim
  • Ancestral & generational trauma healing
  • Rewiring your brain for success
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Arno Michaelis
  • Outshining the Shadow: A Story of Two Redemptions
  • A Recipe for Happiness
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Chisato Hotta
Danny Contreras
Hugo Gonzalez
  • Healing through transformative justice
  • Liberation through community healing circles
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Jamala Taylor
  • Storytelling and Lived Experience
  • Trauma Informed Care and Transformative Justice
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Manuel Gomez
  • Navigating Post-Incarceration Challenges
  • Empowering Veteran Advocacy
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Norma Cumpian
  • Intimate partner violence and re-entry
  • Employment and re-entry
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Rasheed Stanley-Lockheart
  • Harm and Trauma
  • Mass incarceration and its effects on people reentering into society
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Sarit Zimmerman Rogers
  • Pervasive threat: Supporting our Nervous Systems in the face of Antisemitism
  • Finding Agency After Intimate Partner Violence
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Tracy Young
  • Storytelling for child welfare workers and service providers
  • Building resilience through a trauma informed lens
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Yehudah Pryce
  • From a Gangster in Prison to Orthodox Judaism: a journey of Teshuvah
  • The choice of teshuvah: prison musings of Torah and mitzvos
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Interested in joining Trauma Informed Learning Alliance’s Speakers Bureau? Fill out this application.