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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 (they/them) is a non-binary meditation teacher born in 1973 on Lekwungen land (Victoria, BC). With nearly two decades in the Insight/Theravada tradition, Coral brings their sober punk background to dharma teaching, challenging systemic oppression with compassionate awareness. After completing True North Insight teacher training, they co-led three English White Awake courses for white practitioners. Their approach integrates Buddhist wisdom with Generative Somatics and Somatic Experiencing. As co-founder of two Queer Sanghas in Montréal and Berlin, Coral has built inclusive spiritual spaces for the 2SLGBTQ+ community for nearly a decade, weaving together Buddhist practice, social justice, and embodiment work.