I was homeschooled K-12 and have worked in education for the past 8 years, including two years at a self-directed learning center. I am currently studying Early Childhood Education at Durham Tech, and have a passion for working in alternative schooling, focusing on the social-emotional growth of each child. In my spare time I like to create art in various forms, listening to music, and watching/reading sci-fi.

Wu is a multimedia artist and a Durham native. They have experience working with youth as a camp counselor, part-time nanny and with adults as a substitute art teacher at Duke. Wu is also a freelance Graphic Designer who works for organizations in Reproductive Justice. In their spare time they enjoy skating at the skatepark, building costumes for conventions and making art with friends. Growing up they have experienced the importance and impact of being cared for by their community/ village and are committed to offering the same care to others especially our youth!

Anjali is a facilitator with 10 years of experience working with youth. They have mostly worked as a facilitator of a queer and trans-affirming feminist after school program and summer camp Girls Rock Charleston. The programs served youth ages 7-17. Anjali is also a freelance web designer and recording musician. They are an active life-loving person who spends their time homemaking with a low-waste lifestyle, participating in community events, challenging people to play board games, and working with plants.

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As I continue working with teens, my personal goals are to help unwrap their unique gifts to the world, nurture critical thinking about their environment, and help them live in harmony with their peers, youth, elders, and all of our relations.

​Gray was born and raised in Raleigh, NC, graduated UNC Chapel Hill in 2015, and celebrated their ten-year anniversary of living in Durham this July. Over the past decade, Gray has worked in a variety of fields including bookselling, restaurants, farming, gardening, landscaping, construction, childcare, and more. They have served as a steward and steam-pot cook with the mutual aid organization Feed Durham since July 2020. Gray is keen to empower young people's autonomy and creativity, and strives to foster students' sense of wonder, curiosity, play, self-love, and interdependence.

a youth ally, advocate, and mentor of over a decade with experiences ranging from counseling at leadership camp as a high schooler, to tutoring and mentoring high and middle school students as an undergraduate, to teaching undergraduate courses while completing graduate studies. Since obtaining their Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, taari has been actively involved in art mentorship, connecting with youth ages 5-17 through and around encouraging creative expression. taari has made community, art, and love the foundation of their pedagogy and philosophy of care; they hold as a core belief that while in community and creating with consideration and care of those we share space and air with, suffering will be at a minimum. taari is a multimedia artist who currently spends time puppeteering, playing guitar, making prints, and sculpting