Whitney is a bodyworker (CMT) and multimedia artist based in West Oakland. They are dedicated to serving their community through bodywork and massage education, especially LGBTQIA+ people of color. Drawing from their own journey through disordered eating, body disconnection, and CPTSD, they bring deep personal understanding to their work as a trauma-informed massage therapist. Rooted in liberation and healing justice, Whitney's mission is to help people reconnect with their bodies as a source of strength and agency, and to make transformative bodywork accessible to those who have historically been excluded from it.

In their free time, they enjoy spending time with animals, being in or by the ocean, drawing, reading, singing, and cooking.

Vicki

Vicki is an artist, organizer, and tech worker based in Downtown Oakland. Rooted in Buddhist practice, their work explores nondualism and seeds of interbeing futures through co-creating the MELT Bodywork Skillshare, supporting Home Bass (https://homebass.pages.dev/) dance studio, moving with Be Movement Collective (https://www.instagram.com/bemovementcollective/), working in climate tech, and organizing with their sangha and No Tech for Apartheid (https://www.notechforapartheid.com/). They dream of a world where each being is free to offer the gifts that connect them to aliveness, and receive what they need.