Artist, Activist, Performer, Organizer, Writer, Priestess, Healer, Therapist, Teacher, Poet, Entrepreneur
Khara the Artist
I’ve worn a lot of hats!
I was born an artist in Dayton Ohio, became an activist in college and graduated with a degree in interdisciplinary studies and no clearer ideas of what I want4ed to be when I grew up but a deep desire to build community and decolonize my own mind. I have always used creativity as a tool to manage my metntal health and decided that I would fully embrace it as part of my identity when I moved to Oakland, CA in 2006. I’ve worked with organizations such as Art and Action, YES! Youth Spirit Artworks, and the Mosaic Project. Through this work my work as an organizer, and healer blossomed. For 5 years I worked with Generative Somatics as a facilitator, and for the last 20 years I’ve worked with Be Present Inc. which has gifted me with understanding how to embody my authentic self, become a creatrix of play and aliveness and a liberated soul in a fragmented world.
I am also a tarot card reader, a practitioner of Buddhism and African based theology, and a co-creator of good things.
Khara the Therapist
I am a Licensed marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Louisiana. I received my master's in marriage and Family therapy with a focus in expressive arts therapy from the California Institute for Intragal Studies and a bachelor's in Philosophy from Miami University of Ohio.