Aaron Johnson is a facilitator, public speaker, and touch activist. As co-founder of both Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action, Aaron takes the time to hold the stories of black people around internalized racism and those that are Chronically UnderTouched. Because oppression is a part of American culture, the impact of lineage stories should be held as a map for our collective healing. Aaron reaches for that healing through song, meditation, and earth grounding.

A Native Northern American with generations of family raised upon Tongva
Lands, Alyx is a somatic practitioner and group process facilitator whose
work centers the Re-Indigenization practices of belonging, collectivity, and
restorative action.
Connect with them @alyxsomas

Binah is a co-founder of Cascadia Song Rise (along with Kavana Bressen in 2023) and serves as co-creatrix on the 2024 Council. When she’s not busy taking care of busyness such as logisticating and anticipating needs and problems in her organizing, she can lately be found milking goats and making cheese, taking walks and tending community.

Daniel's childhood life was formed in deep relationship with the wild jungles and ocean on the island of Borneo, learning the language and songs and teachings of that land and those waters. That love continues now with life on the island of Kaua'i, learning the language and songs and teachings of this land and these waters. We honor the Earth as Holy, singing together with all Beings. Daniel leads a choir on Kaua'i called Sacred Earth, and is in love with community gathering together to Sing.

Karly is a passionate songleader in the Ubuntu Choir Network tradition and a Permissionary of heartfelt expression.

She leads multiple groups in person and online through Singing Heart Harmonies in Kalapuya territory now known as Eugene, OR. Karly’s prolific songwriting reflects her embrace of being embodied as a human and demonstrates her relationship to song as healer. Her circles are an expression of immense love and joy.

Katie loves to lead groups in song. She writes layered part songs to remind us of simple truths. Her song circles are welcoming, heartfelt, moving and fun. She is a graduate of the Ubuntu Network’s Community Choir Leadership Training as well as Lisa Littlebird’s Flight School.

Katie’s songs have traveled to Hawaii, Victoria BC, Denver CO, and Big Sur CA and elsewhere. Katie is also a singer/songwriter, band leader and a mother.

Kira (she/her) is a multiracial (white and Japanese) song-carrier/choir leader/songwriter residing in the original homelands of the Paiute, Wasco, and Warm Springs people, known as Bend, Oregon. With a passion for building rich tapestries of sound with parts and harmonies that are accessible to all, she brings her heart to nurturing fun and soulful experiences - let's groove! She currently leads Voices Rising Community Choir and at singing gatherings around the country. Kira attended the Ubuntu Network's Community Choir Leadership Training as well as Lisa Littlebird’s Songleader Flight School. Connect with Kira at https://linktr.ee/kira.seto.

Kjersten (pronounced shares-ten, She/They) Beauty Activist, Earth Lover, Eco-Edutainer, Song Carrier, Waste-strument Drum Maker, and Co-Creatrix of Cascadia Song Rise, sharing CommUnity BlesSings song circles on Kalapuyan land throughout Willamette Valley. Kjersten’s original songs are medicinal Earth-loving anthems, some whimsical, lively and uplifting, some deep and reverent, with multi-layers, rhythms and harmonies. Kjersten is humbly learning and committed to transformative, regenerative practices of collective liberation and re-membering belonging. Connect with them IG @kj_creatrix www.magic-mama-music.com bandcamp and FB Kjersten Hallin

Laurence’s songs are easy to learn; mostly layered, often with several phrases taken from inspiring writings, and sung in a gently challenging rhythmic and melodic interplay.

Folks support each other in holding their particular part, then experience the pleasure of blending with other parts to co-create a tapestry of harmonic beauty, rhythmic interest, and shared meaning that nourishes our souls and restores our vision for living into the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

Osprey (they/them) plays ukulele and writes quirky, authentic lyrics about love, self-exploration, grief, gender, and our relationship with the planet. Their songs have taken flight through the community singing circuit. Osprey’s catchy tunes go deep and stay in your head for days, but it’s all good because they hint at answers that are relevant to now. A blend of queer-folk-pop (with a hint of 90’s R&B), their songs are genuine, heartfelt, and easy to sing along to. See ospreyfliesthenest.com for more info.

Join the singers of portal for an alchemical journey of vocal expression. Held in a ritual container stewarded by Marisa Hope Benson, allow your voice to become a channel and a conduit for our kin in the plant kingdom. Voice teacher Emma Rose Lynn will guide singers through voicework and spellsongs designed to connect you to your voice, tune into your frequency, and express the fullness and dynamism of your empowered voice.