(she/they) Maura identifies as a Black mixed race queer femme. The only child of a white single mom from the midwest,  Maura was raised in the Bay Area in the seventies. 

She spent 30 years organizing, building community and raising kids with chosen family in New York City. Gathering with queer mixed-race siblings and Black people raised in white families has nourished and catalyzed her own growth, connection and clarity as an activist, a parent, and leader.   

Maura co-founded co-LAB Collective, Inc, after more than 30 years of service and leadership to heal from, prevent and end patriarchal violence. In her work as a coach, facilitator and strategic advisor to leaders and social movements, Maura supports leaders to step into their full(er) power and supports organizations to embody their values and adapt strategically. Maura’s training in social-organizational psychology, group relations, somatics and dance animates how she holds space for leaders of color, inviting full authority, flow, complexity and embodied leadership in real time.

Maura moved home into the house she grew up in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco. When she is not parenting young adults or care-giving elders or traveling for work,  Maura loves cooking without a recipe and hosting friends and family around her table.

(she/her) Rachael, MSW, is a black Nigerian US born mixed-race cis woman living between NYC and St. Louis, MO. She was raised in the Midwest with her white Lebanese family. 

Through activism, organizing, art and enthusiasm, Rachael passionately works across movements and socio-political priorities to center a transformational, healing, and intersectional racial equity framework. Impactful organizing spaces that she has been a part of includes organizing with the Venceremos Brigade, a more than 50-year-old anti-imperialist Cuba solidarity work project since 2007. She is also the co-creator of Racial Equity & Liberation framework (RE&L) since 2010. In 2014 Rachael convened a healing space referred to as the Black Mixed-Race Collective (BMRC) where community members commit to address anti-blackness and white supremacy culture within the dynamics of mixed-race identity. 

Rachael is a base builder and thought partner with an eye for curriculum and process design. She provides individual and group coaching sessions grounded in deep praxis. Rachael's priorities are to embody liberatory practices and to nurture healthier movement cultures.

(she/her) Sinam is Black mixed queer cis woman hailing from Boston, MA and Harwinton, CT, where grew up as an alternative kid in a primarily Irish Catholic family. Raised by her white father, step mother, aunt and uncle, along with her adopted siblings, she grew up in a non-traditional family structure. Her Black family and roots are in Togo, West Africa where her mother originates from. She currently resides in the Hudson Valley in New York in a landscape that mirrors the contradictory dynamics of her upbringing; beautiful rural scenic views cut by cityscapes, racial diversity & segregation, and social justice community surrounded by conservatism. 

She is a licensed Psychologist currently working in private practice who in her free time organizes around universal healthcare in NY state, enjoys being immersed in art and creating it, and is an amateur evolutionary biology enthusiast.