Presenter: Noreal Armstrong, PhD., LCMHCS, NCC, LCDC (she/her/hers)

Dr. Noreal F. Armstrong is has 13 years of experience in the counseling profession. She has worked as a mental health counselor, Associate Professor in a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, Department chair, a counselor supervisor for six years, and has over 30 presentations. She has written book chapters, and published a lifespan and development textbook. She loves shopping, drawing, and sleeping to take good care of herself. As an avid movie goer, Dr. Armstrong, loves escaping into different worlds.

Presenter: Erin-Kate Escobar (they/them & She/her)

Erin-Kate Escobar is a DEI-centric practitioner and consultant focused on empathy and healing through challenging systems of oppression and working to change the status quo. They use intersectional feminism, social justice education, dialogue, social identity exploration, and evidence-based practices in policies and practices to support people and organizations navigating structural and interpersonal oppression.

Erin-Kate Escobar consulting:
Vision:  People are able to navigate and challenge oppression as a whole human.  

Mission: To build more inclusive workplaces where people can thrive through developing and implementing DEI strategies that include healing and anti-racist practices

Presenter: Reverend Nontombi Naomi Tutu (she/her/hers)

The challenges of growing black and female in apartheid South Africa have been the foundation of Naomi’s life as an activist for human rights. Those experiences taught her that our whole human family loses when we accept situations of oppression, and how the teaching and preaching hate and division injure us all.

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Presenter: Emily Roh (she/her/hers)

Emily is an antiracist life coach and facilitator for Black, Indigenous, People of Color who want to make this world a more just and equitable place. As a facilitator, Emily strives to create spaces where people have agency, choice, and a sense of safety.  In her former life, Emily worked in education and non-profit, primarily focused on making education more equitable for low-income and/or queer students of color. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in Asian American Studies and from the University of Maryland with an M.Ed in Counseling and Personnel Services. Emily is a daughter of Korean immigrants, identifies as a bisexual/queer cisgender woman, and lives with her spouse and child in unceded Tongva/Kitz land, also known as Los Angeles.

PResenter & Facilitator: Catie Beaulieu, MBA, LCMHC, CPT (She/her & They/them)

Catie has 21 years of experience in mental health and 8 years as a licensed therapist. She was the founder of the non-profit, A Therapist Like Me and is currently the Director of Unlearning and Training. She has a private practice where they work as a psychotherapist, trainer, and decolonizing consultant. She primarily works with therapists and clients working to decolonize their practice/selves. They are a trained experiential, somatic, and gestalt therapist. She has participated in and led workshops, conferences, and practice groups related to gestalt, process groups, trauma, somatics, and completed Resmaa Menakem's Somatic Abolitionist training in addition to his Communal Consultations training.