M.Ed is an organizer and educator with Partners for Collaborative Change, using participatory action research, popular education and Theater of the Oppressed to generate collaborative community-led change. Over the last 18 years she has trained and facilitated thousands of children, youth and adults. Some of the groups she has worked with include the Paulo Freire Institute, Rainforest Action Network, Center for Political Education, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Youth In Focus, El Teatro Campesino, Ruckus Society, and multiple Oakland Public Schools. She was a co-founder of the White Noise Collective.

began working with the “Todos: Sherover Simms Alliance Building Institute” co-leading anti-oppression and alliance building workshops for young people and adults around race, gender, class, heterosexism, and ageism in 2001. She went on to develop and facilitate workshops using the “Todos” model independently for small groups and organizations committed to surfacing and uprooting institutional, interpersonal, and personal oppressive cultures and practices. She has been engaged in youth and community development work since 1999. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching from Bard College and Bachelor of Arts in History from San Francisco State University. She is a proud alumni of all four the Peralta Colleges where she began her college career.

Daughter of Janet and Swapan / grand-daughter of Elena, John, Bedangani and Rajendra / mother of Lucia Sarojini : Tatiana grounds her politics in knowledge of self & ancestors, with deep commitment to dismantling systemic oppression while tending to spiritual, psychic, and interpersonal wounds. She is a cultural worker, artist-facilitator, youth organizer and educator. She seeks alternatives to the criminalization of wrongdoing, and uses tools from theater-based healing in alignment with restorative and transformative justice. She develops resistance strategies with grassroots movement organizers through Theater of the Oppressed, also holding learning laboratories for embodied exploration. Tatiana is proud to support her colleagues and co-conspirators in the White Noise Collective - the people who, because of vectors of privilege and social access to power, alongside critical consciousness, intimate knowledge of persecution, solidarity and humility - are opening passageways to courageous ways of being with each other. With the WNC, she designs curriculum to expose how women of color have been sidelined by the victim-offender binary. She leads workshops and reflective sessions for people who volunteer in prison to navigate privilege and hierarchy within institutional settings, form accountable relationships with incarcerated people, and develop methods of allyship. Tatiana helped to curate Mixed Up! queer mixed race feminist zine, a creative platform for writing on her own intersectionality.

social justice educator, activist, and writer, has been an innovative leader in violence prevention for more than 45 years. He is an accomplished trainer and speaker on men’s issues, racism and diversity, challenges of youth, teen dating and family violence, raising boys to manhood, and the impact of class and power on daily life. Paul has developed highly effective participatory and interactive methodologies for training youth and adults in a variety of settings. His work gives people the understanding to become involved in social justice work and the tools to become more effective allies in community struggles to end oppression and injustice and to transform organizations and institutions. Paul is the author of numerous books and curricula, including Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, which won the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award for best book on human rights, Men’s Work, Making the Peace, Helping Teens Stop Violence, Boys Will Be Men, I Can Make My World A Safer Place, and most recently, You Call This a Democracy?: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Really Decides.