revolutionary Speakers, Sources, & Shakers …
in no particular order of hierarchy or entirety,, i have created a cite list to name my sources, to honour the teachers that have inspired and informed my ongoing desire to authentically show up and serve this sacred life. i honourably mention my entire family/ancestors as my core primary source of inspiration, along with the alliance of all my friends, colleagues, and beloved partner who hold me accountable everyday. i have kept their names private, but in no means are they less important. please note this a living list, it is not complete, and it will grow endlessly, i have just started to compile this resource page in hopes you will find new resources to inform your life. also view asian revolutionary for a larger collection of asian luminaries.
dear reader, know that you are also worthy to be on this list, because you are revolutionary too.
share & contribute if you know of a revolutionary i could check out.
Monica Johnson
For the entirety of her career, Monica Johnson has been active nationally in issues dealing with access and success in higher education. Monica’s research centers on the existence, persistence, and resistance of Black women in American higher education, with an acute focus on other-mothering.
Baratunde Thurston
Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of ... eating, walking or generally "living while black." In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing -- while challenging us all to level up.
Dr. Jamila Lyiscott
Speaker, spoken word poet, and social justice education scholar Dr. Jamila Lyiscott makes a powerful argument that, to honor and legitimize all students, we must, likewise, legitimize and honor all of their varied forms of written and spoken discourses. "Liberation Literacies" & “Vision-Driven Justice”
Mary Reynolds
Mary Reynold designs Arks. Acts of restorative kindness to the earth. She has come full circle with garden and landscape design. Now she wants you to give any land under your care back to nature, to re-wild, to be Arked. A sanctuary for all of the native creatures that need it, places to rest and recover and finally thrive. To be a Guardian, not a gardener.
Nadine Artemis
Living Libations was created by Nadine Artemis, beauty philosopher, aromacologist, and botanical muse, shaping plant-intelligence into palpable consecrations to blush senses and muse imaginations. She is also is the author of Renegade Beauty and Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums.
Blair Imani
Blair Imani is a critically-acclaimed historian, outspoken advocate and activist, and dynamic public speaker. She founded Equality for HER, a non-profit organization that provided resources and a forum for women and nonbinary people to feel empowered. She organizes and creates awareness about injustices in Black, Queer, and Muslim communities. Author of Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History and Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and The Black American Dream.
Layla Saad
Layla Saad is an author, speaker & teacher on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation & social change. Layla’s work is driven by a powerful desire to become a good ancestor; to live and work in ways that leave a legacy of healing and liberation, especially for black girls and black women. She is the author of Me and White Supremacy, the host of Good Ancestor Podcast, and founder of the Good Ancestor Academy.
Sianna Sherman
Sianna Sherman an international yoga teacher and priestess. She has extensive training in bodywork, functional anatomy, herbalism, feminine studies, leadership skills and climate reality. Presently, she is in a two-year mentorship for shadow work and emotional intelligence. She is dedicated to social justice education and to unpacking her own white privilege. She is committed to being Love In Action here on earth to serve.
Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Michelle Cassandra Johnson is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. With over 20 years of in the field of dismantling racism and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, she has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World.
Kerri Kelly | CTZNWELL
CTZNWELL is committed to democratizing wellbeing for everyone. We do that by confronting the systemic barriers that are in the way of people being well (like white supremacy, economic injustice, lack of access to healthcare/housing) and creating the social, cultural and political conditions where everyone can thrive.
Mona Haydar
Mona Haydar is a rapper, poet, activist, practitioner of Permaculture, meditator, composting devotee, mountain girl, solar power lover and a tireless God-enthusiast. She practices a life of sacred activism, poetry, contemplation and advocacy for living gently upon the Earth. She teaches classes, gives lectures, leads retreats and workshops, does readings and performs her work.
Shiva Rea
Shiva Rea, M.A. is a yogini firekeeper, sacred activist, global adventurer and leading innovator in the evolution of prana flow yoga, transformational vinyasa flow integrating the tantric bhakti roots of yoga, Krishnamacharya's teachings and a universal, quantum approach to the body. Shiva is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways and for offering the synthesis form of prana flow out in the world. Shiva is the creator of Prana Flow Yoga, Yogadventure Retreats, Yoga Trance Dance for Life, Moving Activism for 1,008,000 Trees, the worldwide Global Mala Project, Yogini Conferences and E2: The Evolutionary Edge Tour.
janaya khan
janaya khan is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada and has become a leading voice in the global crusade demanding social transformation, justice, and equality. Known as future within the BLM movement, khan is a Black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist, staunch Afrofuturist, boxer, and social-justice educator. Khan’s dedication and bold approach to social justice work has created opportunities to contribute to academic and frontline community dialogue engaging audiences on the global impacts of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into 50 languages. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech,
Kaypacha
Kaypacha has more than 40 years of experience as an astrologer and spiritual practitioner. His approach to healing spirit, mind, and body through emotional release and Kundalini yoga utilizes astrology as a healing art. In addition to personal readings, he brings astrology to everyone through international lectures, experiential workshops, writing and teaching. He is the author of "The Pele Report", a weekly astrological YouTube forecast and numerous magazine and online articles. Using yoga, meditation and nature for self-renewal and natural law as his guide, his work brings balance, love, and joy to others and the planet.
yuri kochiyama
Yuri Kochiyama (May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014) was a tireless political activist who dedicated her life to contributing to social change through her participation in social justice and human rights movements. Kochiyama’s activism started in Harlem in the early 1960s, where she participated in the Asian American, Black, and Third World movements for civil and human rights, ethnic studies, and against the war in Vietnam.