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Booker is a heart-centered, spirit-driven activist and meditation teacher committed to creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing. She completed Spirit Rock’s 4-year Retreat Teacher Training in 2020, and shared the practices of yoga and mindfulness with New York City’s most vulnerable populations for over a decade. Booker has co-authored and contributed to several publications including the trauma-informed anthology Practicing Liberation and its accompanying workbook, for folks working towards social justice. She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement. Booker moved to Philadelphia in August of 2020 to vote in a swing state, and currently serves as the Guiding Teacher of New York Insight. For more information: https://www.lesliebooker.com/

Coral Short is a first-generation settler of Irish descent, raised in British Columbia on Sq'ewá:lxw territory and is now based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. After completing True North Insight's Mentorship program in 2022, they continued to organize Somatic and Dharmic gatherings, both in-person and online, fostering connections across diverse communities internationally. As co-founder of Queer Sangha, Coral creates a warm weekly space where LGBTQ2S+ identities are celebrated and supported. Their life work extends to eco-somatic experiences in the forests surrounding Tiohtià:ke, guiding participants through immersive natural journeys in nature. Their morning meditation practice happens each morning while gardening on their block. Coral's practice is rooted in embodiment, connection, and nature. They embrace the ongoing struggle for individual and collective liberation, fostering heart-softening spaces of joy. For more information, please visit their Instagram @coralshort.