lakhiyia | ø pronouns | the spoken word consultant is a public health cultural shapeshifter, freedom art alchemist, inviting us to remember who we are, call all of our fragmented parts home, and get y/our power back.
Depending on our community needs at hand, this may mean masquerading as a business consultant, poet, participatory action researcher, singer, director, dancer, curriculum developer, kuringa/joker, educational curator drawing forth leadership wrapped in y/our radical authenticity–and you name it.
Lakhiyia holds a Bachelors from Northwestern, Masters from USC, Cornell University Certificate in Womxn’s Entrepreneurship, lecturing years at UCLA, and is currently a Critical Disability Studies Adjunct Instructor in the Portland State University School of Social Work. Pedagogy/Theatre of the Oppressed ground Lakhiyia's feet with deep roots in multidisciplinary means for being the fact of our freedom in a world designed to systematically undermine belonging as birthright. Lakhiyia has over 16 years of lived, academic, and professional experience community-educating and consulting in public health, including community-health worker model integration; participatory action research; diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism organizational change; transformative justice accountability systems design and implementation; capacity-building; monitoring and evaluation; curricula-development; and staff retreat facilitation.
Growing up GenderQueer, Blxck, and Bible-Belted in the U.S. Midwest, Lakhiyia means “home” in isiXhosa and Haitian Creole. The voice of Sermon I Wish I’d Heard and Get Y/Our Power Back–available exclusively in the HOMEplxce App (IOS and Android)–Lakhiyia co-hosts HOMEplxce to be an educational and business consulting space committed to Self-determined Intergenerational Wealth Cultivation™ as a practice of Economic and Transformative Healing Justice. Publications available.
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