WE ARE A CIRCLE OF LIBERATORY CONSULTANTS
We are a collaborative circle of seasoned liberatory consultants, facilitators, coaches, anti-oppression trainers, creative radicals, activist-organizers, and healing justice practitioners— working together to help you and your team GET FREE!
MEET THE FOUNDER OF F R E E D O M L A N D
ChE or Xé (they/ them)
ChE or Xé is a proudly Indigequeer Trans Gender-Nonbinary Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Creatrix born in the Uto-Aztecan, Kumiai coastal lands of Oceanside, California; currently living in New Orleans, Indigenous Bulbancha lands of Turtle Island, Gulf South. ChE embodies a commitment to steward the healing medicine of their ancestors, grow structures of Intersectional Justice and Interdependence with the land to conjure worlds of transgenerational Freedom. They are an honored Fellow Awardee with Southerner’s on New Ground: The Lorde’s Werq (2019-2020), a MAP Fund Finalist (2020), Eva Yaa Asantewaa Queer Art Grant Finalist (2019), Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow (2017-2018), and Brown University’s Center for Slavery & Justice Center: Black Spatial Relics, Heimark Artist-In-Residence (2016-2017). ChE has over a decade of consulting experience in organizational development, leadership training, and DEIA+J (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Justice). They have designed, fundraised, and implemented arts, culture, and political education programs; led local and national Intersectional Justice campaigns; equity audits and strategic planning processes; and directed large-scale multi-year political art interventions and collective rituals. All that they steward embodies an ethos of playful experimentation, reverence of land, and the radical spirit of Queer Black Feminist Thought. ChE embodies their ancestors’ wildest dreams through their role as Founding Liberatory Consultant of F R E E D O M L A N D (f. 2019) offering Liberatory Coaching and Consulting services; land-responsive retreats; Freedom Schools; multi-year rites-of-passage programs, and a biennial cohort where QTGNC2-S+ Legacy Leaders-of-Color immerse for two years in the transdisciplinary Intersectional Justice framework, Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis. ChE is the Founding Liberatory Coach for The Underground Railroad: Liberatory Coaching for Creative Radicals of Color (f. 2017) a collective coaching program that supports emerging LGBTQ+Leaders of Color to reconnect to the creative tools of their ancestors charting a path to personal freedom and social change. They were the co-host of the Black Girl Dangerous podcast Spirit Medicine (2016-2017) providing accessible conversations, tools and rituals that support the healing, wellness and liberation of QTBIPOC. A lifelong practitioner of Black Contemplative and Embodied Traditions, ChE launched QT+POC Soul Sangha in 2019, offering culturally-responsive Yoga, Afro-Indigenous somatic ritual, and meditation for liberation. As an interdisciplinary artist, ChE expands identity and genre with mixed media painting, Afro-Indigenous Contemporary Dance, ancestor reverence, storytelling circles, vocal composition, immersive installation, and land-based community rituals that span multiple years. ChE is currently developing The People Can Fly—a cross-regional living folktellin’ unfolding through a decade of land-responsive performance rituals and community programs that bring the cultural praxis, sacred artforms, and medicine traditions of gender-expansive Black+Indigenous peoples of the Gulf South to the Center of national movement-building and dreaming. Follow ChE’s work at http://che-art.life/ (personal site/ art portfolio) and https://wefreedom.land/ (liberatory consulting platform).