Shana Green is a strategist, facilitator, and liberation-centered practitioner working at the intersection of equity, organizational development, and community care. A veteran of the United States Air Force, they currently serve as a Senior Manager in the legal technology space while also pastoring and leading Divequify, a consulting practice focused on building inclusive, human-centered organizations. Shana’s work spans facilitation, training, and strategic advising on equity, neurodivergence, burnout, and organizational culture, with an emphasis on moving beyond performative inclusion toward sustainable, embodied change. Grounded in both professional expertise and lived experience, they challenge systems of power with honesty and care, holding to the belief, as Fannie Lou Hamer said, that “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

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Meg is a social worker and scholar dedicated to improving the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth by understand and intervening within the social contexts in which they are situated (e.g. families, schools, communities, organizations, and the policy environment). They co-founded and led a non-profit LGBTQ+ community center in Illinois and current engage in community-based and creative research to support transgender and gender expansive youth, their supportive families, and trans-affirming mental health providers. Meg is committed to using their professional and personal roles to work toward collective and intersectional liberation.

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Liz began her career in education, advocating for students and families facing systemic barriers. She later channeled that passion into LGBTQ+ youth advocacy, working to make schools safer and more inclusive. Now, through her leadership consulting work at Center of Daring, she partners with organizations and changemakers to create cultures rooted in belonging, equity, and courage. At the heart of her work is a deep commitment to transforming systems and spaces to honor the full humanity of everyone.

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Spencer is a social worker and academic scholar dedicated to improving the lived experiences and wellbeing of chronically ill and LGBTQIA+ individuals with a history of trauma. More specifically, Spencer hopes to use her time as a social worker and academic researcher to advance the knowledge and treatment of those belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community, who have chronic conditions, and/or have experienced trauma. Spencer strives to reduce the trauma those in marginalized communities experience as a result of their identities and previous challenges in healthcare settings by incorporating an intersectional, trauma-informed approach in all that she does, especially the classroom.

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