Diva Mama Tonya, as she is affectionately known, has been working diligently towards encouraging women to become more empowered by embracing their natural womanly cycles. She is devoted to inspiring women along their path in blissfully reclaiming their Ancient Power. Focused on spreading her message of empowerment through spoken word performances and speaking engagements, Dr Freeman is also an ordained inter-faith minister; has doctorate degrees in divinity, metaphysics and motivation through the Universal Life Church; is a certified Aromatherapist; a Reiki/Karuna Ki Master; and an Ancient Femi9 Wisdom Keeper; Inner Growth Consultant; Harmonic Infusion Practitioner; and Diva Advocate with over 30 years of transformational work with women.

Kate Siner Francis is a psychotherapist, coach, and educator who has been practicing integrative psychotherapy and holistic success coaching in the Providence area through her practice Larger Visions. She earned her PhD in psychology and a certification in Expressive Arts after nearly 15 years of self-learning and practice of alternative approaches to growth and development.

 Nicole Oxendine is an experienced leader and facilitator committed to personal healing, creative social change, and the flow of Love.  Nicole finds joy supporting emerging leaders and bringing creative thinking and strategy to help ideas and dreams become realities.  Also among her gifts and pleasures are convening the June New Moon Multi-Generational Women’s Gathering near DC, as well as Red Tent Temple gatherings for women and Pink Tent gatherings for girls.  She is a 7th generation Priestess Path graduate and core co-creatrix of Women in Power in Maryland.  She is a student of ShadowWork and Four Gateways Coaching.  For over twenty years, Nicole has worked to improve outcomes for women and their families at the individual, community, and systems levels.  She is the proud Lumbee momma of triplet goddesses and a dog named Shayla.  For more information, visit www.wisewomanwithin.com.

Oceana is a healer with almost three decades of experience integrating different modalities for an eclectic approach. She incorporates metaphysics and abundance consciousness, psychometry, mediumship, hands on healing including Reiki, gemstones, and sound and is a practicing shaman and tantric yogini.

Her mission is to celebrate life and empower herself and others into a direct experience of the Divine. As a workshop facilitator and healer she leads people into a deeper connection with their internal knowing and empowers them to find the pearls in their pain. A compassionate and wise teacher, Oceana uses humor, magic, and celebration to open the gates of transformation. www.GoddessOceana.com

As a sexuality educator, filmmaker, writer, performing artist and activist, Amy Jo Goddard makes it her life’s mission to help people explore and improve their sexual lives.  She travels to colleges, universities, sex-positive communities, and conferences teaching workshops and speaking about sexuality. She is an out faculty member at the City University of New York and advises the brand new, much-needed LGBTQ campus club at BMCC. She teaches medical and nursing students how to perform breast and pelvic exams at most of New York City’s major medical institutions, including Columbia, Cornell and NYU. She is director, producer and co-writer of a forthcoming documentary entitled At Your Cervix (www.atyourcervixmovie.com), a film which depicts this work, and dedicated to making all pelvic exams respectful and pain-free. Her most recent education/empowerment work is her Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship, a program she developed and launched this year, in which she works intensively with women to help them explore, heal, develop and celebrate their own sexuality and sexual potential. She worked for over 12 years with young people, and for many years went into New York’s public schools, coming out to students, teachers and administrators as Queer and talking about how to make schools safer for LGBTQ students. She has utilized her writing, performance and media work to promote feminist sex-positivity and an end to harmful gender roles. She is co-author of Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men, and is a contributing author of All About Sex: A Family Resource Guide on Sex and Sexuality. Her article “Staging Activism,” about queer performance artists and activism was published in 2007 in the Social Justice Journal and she has been published in numerous other publications. Amy Jo was host of CherryBomb.com's web stream program "Fresh Advice,” developing, researching, writing and performing over 60 episodes on women’s sexuality. Amy Jo has produced her plays in New York’s downtown venues, including Vulvalution: Her Lips Speak in 1999 and HoneyToes Makes A Scene in 2004 and 2005. In addition to her educational, artistic and activist work, she maintains a private sex & relationship coaching practice. www.amyjogoddard.com.

Katja Esser is a multi-disciplinary artist who inspires through self-expression. She studied fine art in the Netherlands and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Since 1992 Katja has created sacred ceremonies for the seasons of which the summer solstice of America’s Stonehenge is the most well-known. Katja leads drumming circles, workshops in sound, continuum based movement, maskmaking and ritual. She has studied with maskmaker Eric Bornstein and is part of “Theater Behind the Mask” which is seen annually at First Night Boston, First Night summer events, numerous corporate gigs and “Young Audience” school shows. She appeared at Boston Flower Show as a tree. She performed her mask in collaboration with videographer Gene Hall in a piece called “the Magic of Water in Motion” and with sound artist and musician Ricardo Frota in “the Hidden Life of Trees”. Since 1996 she has been very involved with ritual work with African elder Malidoma Some' which brought her several times to Burkina Faso to deepen the work. Katja is also an improvisational singer and has created a CD from a cave experience with the group Bonesong. Katja has extensive website, www.ritualexpressions.com at which her work can be viewed.  

Lisa Lotus Brown, MAT, earned her undergraduate degree in Sociology and her masters degree in

Social Studies and History. She grew up in Philadelphia and is now an educator in an urban high schoolin Paterson, New Jersey. She has been an activist for most of her life, working for peace, justice and equality. She has worked for ACORN, New Jersey Peace Action, Strengthen Our Sisters, HRC,

NAACP, Greenpeace and Clean Water Action. She is co-founder of Highlands Peace Action, an

organization that educates and informs local community on peace and justice issues. Lisa has taught classes on The Sociology of Racism and Ethnicity and The History of Racism. She is presently embarking on setting up monthly diversity workshops for the staff at her high school to open up a forum to discuss racism and discrimination.