About Mary

Mary Mbaba, MPH, MA (she/they; @Mary2TheGame) is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Social Psychology at The George Washington University and a Contemplative Practitioner at Charlie Health, where she offers yoga and mindfulness group sessions in an intensive outpatient (IOP) tele-health care setting. Her dissertation focuses on ways to increase yoga practice in Black adults.

She has been practicing yoga since 2009 and instructing since 2014. Her public health research focuses on structural determinants of health outcomes with expertise in mental health, substance use, HIV prevention, and justice involvement. Her mission is to promote health equity for marginalized underserved communities using an intersectionality framework.

About Deonte

Deonte Keitt (@DJChalant) is a well-known D.C. native and DJ in the DMV area. DJ Chalant is a Music Enthusiast, DJ, Producer, Writer, Entrepreneur, and also a sports fanatic and a fan of 90s sitcoms. He previously worked at CBS radio and as a sound engineer and promotional marketeer at WPGC.

About Toni

Toni Junious (@toniiilynnn) is a public health practitioner currently pursuing her MPH in epidemiology at the George Washington University. She is the co-founder of Soultry Sisters, an arts and wellness collective empowering women of color to live healthy lives through soulcare, sustainability, and sisterhood.

About Devon

Devon Hornberger (@dkhbrgr) is a soon-to-be yoga instructor currently pursuing her Master’s in Library & Information Science at Simmons University. She hopes to develop the skillset for archiving holistic wellness practices in order to document and preserve the material culture of local, people-focused spaces for connection and healing, with emphasis on somatic recovery from personal and historical trauma.

About Dominic

Dominic Anthony Green (@thewritingdirector) is a multi-disciplinary artist and storyteller from Maryland currently focused on film, photography, and playwriting. From a young age, Dominic has been fascinated with the duality of good and evil. This fascination was rooted in a spiritual upbringing, and stories of good and evil found in biblical text and science fiction literature. Through these stories, Dominic developed a curiosity about the backstories of their characters, and how a moment seemed to shape the rest of their lives. Dominic uses his lens and writing to explore this central tension and inherent questions of fairness and bias rooted in perception.

Green has exhibited in the Washington D.C. area at Bowie Arts Committee, The Cheshire, Hickok Cole and Washington Project For The Arts, Sustainable Culture Lab, SAMASAMA, and The Nicholson Project. He was awarded residencies in 2011 at Peter Waddell’s The Toy Theatre, in 2019 at the University of Maryland/ Joe’s Movement Emporium, and in 2020 at The Nicholson Project.

About Priscilla

Priscilla Medina (@SevenMoons_) is a well-known D.C. native. Seven Moons is an artist and coordinator who currently works in her local community. She has previously displayed her work throughout the DMV. She recently returned from the Amazon of Peru learning how to create art and live sustainably.

About Katie

Katie Starr (she/her; @katiestarr111) is a North Carolina native and currently lives on the the land of the Shakori and Eno people, also known as Durham, North Carolina. She is passionate about art-based education with youth that centers social justice, community healing, and identity development. She organizes with community movements around abolition, education, food, and environmental justice. She loves frequent dance parties, creating art of all forms, attending live music events, and appreciating the beauty of Mother Earth.