Stephanie Ghoston Paul (she/her) is an internationally recognized speaker, racial justice facilitator, organizational development consultant, life coach, and recovering lawyer. She helps people, communities, and companies get in alignment with and fully embody their purpose, in service of a planet where all human beings are free, whole, and enough.

Stephanie's unique approach skillfully and wholeheartedly combines her sharp legal mind, problem-solving skills, and love of people to powerfully serve clients and dismantle existing exclusive systems and organizational structures. Her consulting practice supports organizations ready to transform their core identity to one that fully embeds anti-oppression and liberatory principles into their organizational culture.

Through her individual life coaching work, she is dedicated to helping high-achieving leaders embrace their brilliance so that they can stop second-guessing their greatness and activate their potential. Stephanie walks alongside her clients as they discover ways to stop hiding, prioritize themselves, and start living on purpose.

Stephanie is also a best-selling author and a recent TEDx speaker. In her latest community offering, she explores what it means to be a living ancestor through her podcast Take Nothing When I Die. She enjoys cooking spicy dishes with her partner and finding new flavors of delicious tea.

Robyn Donaldson, J.D. is the co-founder of Paths to Peace, a team of trauma informed yoga educators, healing artists and psychotherapists who offer trainings and programs in mental health education, trauma informed care, community building and restorative justice.

Some organizations and clients familiar with her work include Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight Action, Black Voters Matter, Color of Change, the Movement for Black Lives and the Minneapolis based Race in America Project.

Robyn has a legal and political background. She's a former campaign staffer for Senator Jon Ossoff in Georgia. She was the Broward County Regional Director for Organizing for America and a former campaign staffer for President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign in FL. Robyn is also the Founder of the digital grassroots Facebook Groups: Team Stacey Abrams and Team Georgia Blue, which has over 25K members.

Robyn is originally from the Chicago suburbs, but currently resides between Atlanta, GA and the suburbs of Chicago. She's a former lawyer, a culture builder and proud HBCU graduate from Florida A&M University.

I am a multidisciplinary artist and writer living in Southwest Virginia. I enjoy painting, photography, writing poetry, and singing. I also love SciFi, watching basketball, and having long chats about art and culture over coffee or bubble tea.

My creative interests stem from my desire to express vulnerability in ways that draw people in and encourage self-reflection and awareness. It's that vulnerability that I've come to recognize and value highly.

I got my bachelor's degree in Music from Dartmouth College, where I graduated in 1996. I spent my 20s working as an opera singer, and my 30 as a music teacher at an arts academy, all the while teaching private voice lessons. It was while my two middle children were babies that I renewed my love for photography, and spent years blogging and mentoring my music students in photography outside of school. I also began journaling more often after not writing much for several years, and began to cultivate my art journaling practice in 2008.

The influences that I pull from most heavily in my work include my family history, memories of growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, music, and over the last few years, my struggles with grief, depression, and anxiety. The layers in my work often reflect where I am in my efforts to engage in a healing process and create moments of joy for myself.

Esther Boykin is a psychotherapist who wants to live in a world where everyone believes that Therapy Is Not A Dirty Word. As the CEO of Group Therapy Associates, a private practice in the DC metro area, she works every day to make mental health accessible, innovative, and culturally relevant for all people.

In 2017 Esther launched Therapy Is Not A Dirty Word, a division of GTA designed to bring mental health conversation outside the traditional office setting and into the community through media, webinars, social events, and retreats.

In addition to her role as a licensed marriage & family therapist and CEO, Esther is also an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech teaching the business of therapy, author of The Date Deck, and a sought-after relationship and mental health expert. In 2021, she gave a commencement speech to the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Counseling and Education, from which she received an Honorary Doctorate. In 2022, she launched a new podcast that celebrates the stories of Black men titled "In the Space Between."

She was recently named a top 21 relationship expert to follow by Cosmopolitan magazine and has appeared on NBC's Today show, Bravo's Real Housewives of Potomac, HuffPost, Good Morning Washington, the Wall Street Journal, Refinery 29, and a myriad of other media outlets.