Who We Are

We each come from different backgrounds: Education,Therapy, Yoga, Mindfulness, Somatic Movement, Music, Marketing, Design, Non-Profit and Small Business Management. Our diversity offers a unique and integrated approach to anti-racism work that fosters healing and wholeness.

 
 

Lyrica Fils-Aimé

LCSW-R, RPT-S

Lyrica is a Director of Equity Transformation and Culturally Responsive Environments at the New York City Department of Education. She is a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Registered Play Therapist, and runs a private practice in Harlem. She obtained her BA in from the Universtiy of Richmond in Psychology and Business, an MSW from NYU and Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership from Fordham University. She creates and designs equity teams, diversity councils, affinity groups, multi-cultural programming and supervises social workers with an anti-racist and anti-oppresive leadership focus. Lyrica is also the author of “The Gift of [Anti-Racist] Therapy,” a series examining clinicians who are working to be anti-racist and anti-oppressive .

 
 

This work is ongoing and can feel like I am up against a wall, but as a light-brown-skinned educator and therapist my duty is to address, uplift, and encourage.

 
 
 
 

Wanna Johansson

Wanna is a creator and designer for clients like Eckhart Tolle, The Sounds True Foundation, and Mindfulness.com. Currently she’s a full scholarship recipient in a two-year certification program for teaching awareness and compassion-based practices through the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley. She is also an E-RYT 500 yoga facilitator, teaching retreats and trainings internationally, and online at The Embodied Yoga Summit.

 
 

As a teacher, when BIPOC students looked to me for leadership, I realized I had been trained by white teachers for white students in a white industry, and I needed to make change starting within myself. As a designer, I’ve been tasked to create marketing materials for companies that “look diverse.” It became clear to me that real inclusivity and change can only happen within an organization and staff through anti-racism education and racial literacy.