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Linda Kohanov is an author and equine-facilitated learning facilitator whose message about non-predatory power - derived from years of studying and relating to horses in their natural social communities - could be a life-changing resource for humanity.

Andrea Leda has been called "the Life Coach Guru" and "a force to be reckoned with who truly makes this world go round." As a sought-after master coach, teacher, and mentor, she is dedicated to helping people understand that no matter where your life takes you, you are worth being brave with your life.
Jena Coray is an intuitive energy worker who helps stressed-out creatives find more balance, ease and freedom from the inside out. She offers distance energy healing sessions and a one-on-one coaching program to help people learn how to harness the power of their intuition to guide them in everyday, busy life.

Andrea Leda has been called "the Life Coach Guru" and "a force to be reckoned with who truly makes this world go round." As a sought-after master coach, teacher, and mentor, she is dedicated to helping people understand that no matter where your life takes you, you are worth being brave with your life.

Jena Coray is an intuitive energy worker who helps stressed-out creatives find more balance, ease and freedom from the inside out. She offers distance energy healing sessions and a one-on-one coaching program to help people learn how to harness the power of their intuition to guide them in everyday, busy life.

Chad Brown is an accomplished documentary style portrait and adventure photographer, creative director, conservationist, and founder/president of a non-profit organization. He has a strong vein when it comes to outdoor adventure travel and documenting threatened wild spaces, as well as connecting the public to endangered areas by capturing and showing the true spirit of the people of these lands. He also produces intense, raw images of stylized dramatic documentary portraits by creatively using a bold approach, unique angles, and dramatic lighting. He is deeply interested in capturing moments of passion and the human spirit. Through his striking documentary portraits and photographic exhibitions, he showcases and advocates for social and environmental justice.

He studied communication design and photography at American Intercontinental University. He then attended Pratt Institute in NYC, where he earned Masters of Science in Communication Design. He has managed interdisciplinary teams as a creative director, art director and photographer for design firms and agencies as well as a freelance artist. His work has crossed into underground hip hop, fashion, and pop culture, photographing the streets of NYC and successfully presenting to one of the nation’s leading hip-hop culture business moguls, Russell Simmons, founder of Phat Farms. Brown worked directly with Run Athletics, developing creative campaigns and executing photoshoots. He is also an editorial photographer for the New York Times. His photography adventure assignments have lead him touring Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. He is also part of the less than 1% of world population who had been to Antartica. In fact, he has received the Antartica Service Medal for surviving more than 30 days on the Antarctic continent while he was serving in the Navy.

After leaving the hustle of New York City, he is now residing in Portland, Oregon. His career paths and his life have expanded beyond the realm of the traditional creative world. Mother Nature has played a significant role in his healing from war traumas he experienced as a Navy service member. His failed suicide attempt eventually led him to the launching of a non-profit organization unlike any other, called Soul River Inc. Soul River specializes in outdoors education and cultural expeditions Brown calls deployments. It brings together at-risk youth and Veterans as mentors and takes them into threatened wild spaces, providing mission-driven experiences where advocacy and outdoor education meet. His work has lead him to Capitol Hill, advocating for our public lands and wild places, bringing youth leaders of tomorrow and giving them an opportunity to interface with Congressional members.

Brown is a Boardmember of the National Wildlife Refuge Association. He has been featured on BBC, CBS, as well as in national publications such as Outside Magazine and The Drake, and in various Pacific Northwest publications. Additionally, Brown was the first recipient of the Breaking Barriers Award Presented by Orvis, as well as the Bending Toward Justice Award from Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley.

Nanci Luna Jiménez is recognized regionally, nationally, and
internationally for her highly effective and insightful training,
inclusive facilitation, and dynamic speaking with groups of
diverse ages, industries, and cultural backgrounds. She
founded Luna Jiménez Institute for Social Transformation
(LJIST) in 1994 to design and deliver programs to encourage
individuals in their process of personal transformation, releasing
individual initiative to create a more just and equitable
workplace and world.
Nanci’s signature approach to social justice and healing
continues the legacy of work that Dr. Erica Sherover-Marcuse,
who coined the term “unlearning racism,” began and Lillian
Roybal Rose, M.Ed., recognized Cross-Cultural Communication
specialist, continued. This process empowers participants to take pride in their own heritage as a means
of building alliances with others. Nanci expertly combines these teachings with methodologies developed
by the Institute for Cultural Affairs (ICA), an international organization that provides training in
participatory group facilitation processes for sustained organizational and social change. A Certified
Professional Facilitator© since 2006, Nanci facilitates individuals and groups to look freshly at where they
might be stuck while supporting them to make transformational changes they envision through: personal
healing, cross cultural communication, group consensus, organization inclusion, and short and long term
planning and implementation.
In 2016 Nanci was a Fellow in the Presidio Institute’s Cross Sector Leadership Program. In 2006 she was
awared a National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI) Fellowship where she completed the Executive
Leadership Program through the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Center
for Creative Leadership in Brussels, Belgium.
Of Puerto Rican and Chicana heritage, Nanci was born in Detroit, MI, and raised in Detroit and Tucson,
AZ. Nanci thrives doing Bomba—an Afro-Puerto Rican dance and drum tradition—traveling, weight lifting,
training for half marathons and practicing yoga—on and off the mat.

Marpessa Allen is a community leader, birth worker, and advocate for disadvantaged populations in the greater Denver area.

In this conversation, we discuss leadership through the lens of oppression, and what it means to find your voice.