CW  Consent Educators,

Collaborators, + Practitioners

These folks have graduated from the CW Teaching Artist Program/Consent Educator Program, and I am happy to personally recommend their work.

Want to attend the program? Applications are open.

Serena Caffrey (they/she)

Visual + Performance Artist, Arts Worker, Writer, Educator, + Consultant

Serena’s artistic practice based in Los Angeles, CA, aims to cultivate personal and community divestment from capitalistic logics of linear time-space, body coloniality, and extractive attitudes toward land through a radical assessment of personal limits within a performative context. In their work as a somatic consent educator, Serena supports artists to overcome destructive patterns of overworking, self-sabotage, and sensory overload to build a creative practice rooted in sacred self-limits that honor intuitive wisdom and support whole-person wellness. Serena also serves as a grant writer and organizational consultant to arts nonprofits and educational departments, helping them reaccess creative flow and better advocate for their operating needs flow by building a consent-based work culture that uplifts the dignity and agency of all actors. serenacaffrey.com

Bobbie Esposito (they/them)

YOUTH COORDINATOR + INTIMACY COORDINATOR FOR FILM + TELEVISION

While Bobbie was studying to be an Intimacy Coordinator, they were looking for folks in the field who worked on sensitive content with minors. To Bobbie’s surprise, they were always met with the explanation that minors cannot have simulated sex, therefore intimacy coordinators were not involved with their scenes. This led Bobbie to developing their own process to advocate for minors on stage and TV/film sets, called Youth Coordination. Bobbie combines their training as an Intimacy Coordinator with over a decade of experience working with minors in movement and artistic spaces. These experiences greatly informed Bobbie’s approach to explaining boundaries in a way that is age-appropriate, answering questions minors might have about script content, and creating a nourishing space for young actors. Bobbie offers emotional support for young actors, consulting and educating around LGBTQIA+ issues for youth, meaningful and age-appropriate discussions around sensitive script content, and when needed, Intimacy Coordination. youthcoordinatortvfilm.com • email • Instagram

Torrianna Foster (they/she)

Consultant, Intimacy Coordinator, + Sex Educator

Torrianna Foster, M.Div-MSJ, is a Black, queer, nonbinary, and disabled womanist who champions the spiritual, sexual, and communal power of queer and trans Black femmes. With a master’s degree in spiritual care and social-cultural ethics, Torrianna uses their distinct skill set in sex-positive BDSM education, certified intimacy coaching, coordinating intimacy and spiritual formation (respectively), and inclusive sex-education reform. She also advises nonprofit organizations on pro-Black and LGBTQ organizational and educational policy. Torrianna regularly travels cross-country as a full-spectrum intimacy coach and public sex educator with a joyful, embodied, trauma-informed approach. Services include community-based mediation, inclusive, age-appropriate sex ed, community organizing, and 1:1 coaching to support clients in taking back their mental, spiritual and sexual power. email • Instagram

Stella Hartmann (she/her)

Poet, Podcast Producer + Editor

Stella is Tanzanian + Colombian and first-gen American. Writing has always been a cathartic and self-motivated constant in her life. Her latest book of poetry, Mark Her, came to fruition through her understandings of letting go. Recognizing that romanticizing love was a form of distraction — a beeline towards useless martyrdom —was an awakening. Through her poetry, she sheds her desire to hide love under pride and ego. The book captures a specific time in her life and is a reflection of gratitude for that time and the lessons received. www.stellahartmann.com • email • Instagram

Mari Leon-Hernandez (she/her)

Somatic Trauma Resolution Guide, Intimacy Coach, Consent Educator, + ProDomme

Mari is a neurodivergent + queer rebellious human in a body of culture. She works with neurodivergent women to navigate intimacy and heal from childhood neglect by practicing nervous-system regulation and sharing body-based tools for empowerment, boundaries, and self-advocacy. Mari holds the grand vision that we all can return to our innate blueprint of health and radiant aliveness by releasing long-held patterns that keep us away from self-actualization. email • Instagram

Brooks Herr-Cardillo (they/them)

Somatic consent educator, tarot reader, ritual coach, reiki practitioner, grief counselor

Brooks is a genderqueer witch and artist, whose work focuses on the power of ritual and ceremony. They offer one-on-one ritual building and tarot sessions, reiki, custom ingress objects, tarot education, and self-paced learning resources. Their professional framework draws from witchcraft, ancestor work, tarot, somatics and energy healing. The guiding core of this work is to cultivate a practice of intuitive listening and response… wherein we locate empowerment, integrity, authentic information, and (re)connection to our impulses and inner knowing. veilsveilsveils.com • Instagram

Dr. Jon Paul Higgins (they/them)

Equity Consultant

Jonathan P. Higgins is an educator, national speaker, freelance journalist, thought leader, and media critic who is passionate about television and film development. They have worked on inclusion projects with Fox, the NFL, Apple, Disney, Instagram, Buzzfeed, and GLAAD’s 2021 HIV Stigma Report. They have been a featured speaker for TEDx, competed on Netflix’s hit show Nailed It, and served as a panelist at SXSW (South by Southwest). Jon is currently working with iHeartMedia via the NextUP Initiative on the Black Fat Femme Podcast. They hold a doctorate in educational justice and write and lecture about what liberation means for Black, queer, fat, non-binary people. DoctorJonPaul.com • email

Rebecca Jones (they/them)

Massage therapist

Rebecca is a Massage Therapist based in Altadena, CA. They provide a welcoming therapeutic space for those who might not feel comfortable in a standard spa setting, with a focus on chronic pain education and relief for queer, fat, and trans people. Having worked in a variety of fields including publicity, marketing, hospitality, and childcare, they bring their dynamic work experience into every professional interaction. rebeccajones.me

Laila Makled (they/he)

Consent, communication, + care educator

Laila Makled’s years of experience as a corporate troublemaker led them to found push2exist, where they provide operations consulting and life coaching. They use somatic and anti-oppression techniques for radical and progressive campaigns, organizations, schools,a companies, and individuals who work in those spaces. Their focus is on equity, direct communication, and collective care. push2exist.net • Instagram • TikTok

Meenadchi (name/they)

Somatic consent educator, facilitator, + author

Meenadchi is a somatic healing practitioner whose work centers the softness of meeting our best self and deepening into our collective light. Using a blend of Family Constellation Therapy and Non-Violent Communication, Meenadchi supports inquisitive individuals and entrepreneurial changemakers in reconnecting with the intuitive wisdom of your bodies so that we can co-create intergenerational healing by changing the way we speak to ourselves, each other, and the universe. Meenadchi holds a clinical license in occupational therapy and has historically served communities impacted by gender-based violence, complex trauma, and serious mental illness. Meenadchi is the author of Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication (2019). meenadchi.com • Instagram

Ty Reddy (he/him)

Boundaries + Consent Educator, Play Tutor, Gender Consultant, + Desire Facilitator

Ty’s offers workshops and private sessions that help individuals build an internal and external praxis of consent and bodily presence to connect to their inner child, sense of play and desire, and come home to themselves. He utilizes a full toolkit of embodiment and emotional attunement exercises, nonverbal listening practices, and consent and boundary frameworks and practices to help connect individuals to their innermost self and find a space of joy, authenticity, and presence within. He is a neurodivergent, chronically-ill, trans-masculine person of color primarily interested in working with other queer and transgender individuals who want to strengthen their connection to their own magic and sense of romance. He has a background in clinical psychology, ecology, and gender studies from a decolonized, trauma-informed, anti-ableist perspective. He is an herbalist, native plant nerd, autist, synesthete, hedonist, goofball, and generally hyper-empathetic weirdo. email

Rebekah Rose (they/she)

Illustrator, Muralist, Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher, Non-Profit Program Manager, + somatic consent educator

Rebekah Rose holds a BFA in illustration from California State University Long Beach and over eight years experience facilitating groups and practicing public art. Rebekah approaches their work with a lighthearted sense of humor and play. Using a combination of creative practices and mindfulness-based approaches, Rebekah creates space for people to get to know themselves without judgment. They believe that healing and liberation exists in small everyday moments, when we are able to slow down and hear the needs of our bodies without judgment or mistrust. rebekahroseart.com • Instagram

V, aka Vivienne Vai (they/them)

ProDomme, Kink/BDSM educator, Somatic Consent + boundaries Educator + Coach, + Performance Artist

V serves and supports the QTBIPOC and SWer communities through their work in sexuality, intimacy, boundaries, and consent, centering their community’s experiences and needs through racial justice, disability justice, and queer and trans liberation frameworks. In their kink, BDSM, and performance work, V empowers people to express, understand, and celebrate their desires, gain greater self-awareness, and access deeper intimacy with themselves and others. As an educator and coach in boundaries and consent, V’s focus is on helping others to discern, honor, and uphold their own boundaries so that they may exist in safe, authentic, and choiceful connection with themselves and their communities. viviennevai.com

Sharon Vincuilla (she/her)

Human–Animal Bond Facilitator, Human–Canine Interaction Strategist, + somatic consent educator

Sharon Vincuilla cultivates embodied awareness and reciprocity between humans and dogs so they can mutually flourish. Through a trauma-informed, intuitive approach, Sharon supports humans who struggle with stress, anxiety, and depression, and dogs who experience anxiety, aggression, and reactivity, in developing individualized practices of co-regulation. Her techniques incorporate somatic consent, polyvagal theory, canine cooperative care, sensory processing, nonviolent communication, and the neuroscience of human–animal interactions.  Sharon’s expertise stems from compassionate rehabilitation for traumatized dogs along with her doctoral-level clinical practice of occupational therapy in community-based mental health. Sharon’s gentle presence celebrates the magic of being in reciprocal relationship with nonhuman life and creates an empowering space to play, make mistakes, learn, and grow. holisticdogexpert.com • email • Instagram

Inka Winter (she/her)

Desire + Arousal Coach, Sex Educator, + Erotic Film Maker

Inka Winter is the founder of ForPlay Films, an independent, all-woman porn production company. Her films titillate the senses through sexual chemistry, consent, autonomy, and the female gaze. Because Inka believes that education and emotional wellbeing are a central part of a healthy sex life, she started the YouTube channel Sexucation is providing desire and arousal coaching. Working with Inka, you will learn about your personal facilitators and inhibitors, what motivates you to want sexual encounters, and the circumstances that trigger your sexual responses. Through mindfulness techniques, you will learn how to identify and stay present to sexual stimuli. Inka’s passion for working with desire and arousal grew out of her own experience with losing her libido for over a year due to trauma. While women are her focus, she works with people of all genders who experience challenges in the bedroom or that want to get more in touch with their sensuality. forplayfilms.com • email • Instagram

x (they/ze/fae)

Transdisciplinary Artist, choreographer, curator, consultant, + Intimacy Coordinator

x studied Theatre at Ithaca College with minors in Dance and Art History. They are an Afro-Asian, second-generation Chinese-Jamaican immigrant, disabled, and neurodivergent. Faer lived experiences and identities as a visibly Black, agender/Neutrois, disabled person heavily informs their practices from art to advocacy. x does commissions, panels, artist talks, group classes, and one-on-one consulting. They trained with Centaury Co. in their intimacy coordination program and continue to train as a professional dancer. x intimacy coordinated upcoming film Throuple and new trans-centered magazine Lemonboy. Ze is interested in experimental and unconventional opportunities. Not sure if x is a fit for your project? Inquire anyway. art • intimacy coordination • email • Instagram

Jozelle Wong Yu (they/she)

Professor turned Professional Cuddler • Boundaries + Consent Educator

Jozelle Wong Yu, M.A., is a Communication Studies Professor turned Professional Cuddler and Boundaries + Consent Educator. They are passionate about facilitating sensual experiences where anyone — especially queer, trans, and non-binary people of the global majority — can embody their true desires and be met with tenderness and warmth. With Consensual Cuddles, Jozelle guides folks seeking to heal their nervous systems using affectionate platonic touch and consensual communication. consensualcuddles.com • email • Instagram