Danielleis a writer, pundit, and government affairs specialist; VP at SKD Kickerbocker, a Public Affairs, Public Relations and Communications Agency. She is also the creator of Politini. From the classroom to Capitol Hill she’s spent her career promoting social justice. She was previously the lead education lobbyist for the National Wildlife Federation, and served as an aide to Mayor Michael Bloomberg (NYC) and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (NY-11). She is the Editor-in-Chief of threeLOL and her writings are frequently published in The Atlantic, Essence, and Huffington Post.
Named one of the top Forty-Under-40 national LGBT leaders by The Advocate magazine
Recognized as one of the top 100 emerging African American leaders by The Root
[bctt tweet=”Just as Obama was able to elevate hope Trump came in & elevated fear. Fear is easier to elevate.” url= “https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”deetwocents”]
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[bctt tweet=”I don’t believe that one man has the ability to undo the 20th century” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”deetwocents”]
[bctt tweet=”This is not just about who’s in the white house. This is about who’s in every house!” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”deetwocents”]
[bctt tweet=”He said he would bring the country together, he did. He didn’t know it would be against him.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”deetwocents”]
[bctt tweet=”We need all of it. Show up. Sign the petition. Go to town hall meetings. It all matters now.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”deetwocents”]
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THE STRUCTURE OF THE LAND: Aiming For Second Order Change & The Power Of Crankiness
PattiDigh has written 8 books on global diversity and living mindfully, has worked and traveled in over 60 countries, has served on the President’s Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities, and has learned more from her transgender Autistic son than from any of those other experiences. Patti is the founder of The Art of Activism and Life is a Verb Camp, and is currently writing a book on the history of normalcy with her husband, John Ptak.
[bctt tweet=” You can either judge or you can learn but you can’t do both at the same time.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”pattidigh”]
[bctt tweet=”We can’t apply tame solutions to wicked problems like racism.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”pattidigh”]
[bctt tweet=”Connect yourself with things outside your realm of usual experience” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”pattidigh”]
Lauren Dearing Russo, M.A., is a certified coach who loves working with creative rebels, helping them make the most of their time and do what they’ve been putting off. She’s on a mission to empower highly sensitive, rebellious artists, creative professionals, and entrepreneurs to step into their visionary role and have the most meaningful impact on their worlds. With expertise in academia, non-profits, and women’s rights, she has a decade of experience cultivating effective and meaningful change for individuals, organizations, and communities using the power of story, practical strategies, and insight that makes you go hmmm. After living around the country (and Italy, too), she is happy to call Austin, TX home. You can find her and her Structured Freedom program for creative rebels at www.laurendrusso.com
[bctt tweet=”Part of what we are feeling right now is that we are bumping up against the limits of women’s individual power.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”LaurenDRusso”]
[bctt tweet=”We have this myth in America that the quality rises to the top– that you get what you deserve to a certain extent. ” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”LaurenDRusso”]
[bctt tweet=”Nice White Lady Syndrome says: people shouldn’t shout, or riot, or make other people uncomfortable. They should be nice.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”LaurenDRusso”]
[bctt tweet=”Coaching tools can really be useful by helping us sit with the uncomfortable feelings that get in the way of us being a good ally.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”LaurenDRusso”]
Carine Williams lives in Brooklyn, New York, by way of Miami, Florida. After attending Yale Law School and clerking for a federal district court judge, Carine focused her practice as an attorney on defending people and corporations facing government investigation or prosecution. Her pro bono work has included civil right litigation and appellate habeas work for wrongfully convicted prisoners. Carine has served as an adjunct lecturer at Columbia Law School, where she taught seminar courses on constitutional rights enforcement. Prior to becoming an attorney, Carine taught English at an alternative public high school for student who had been kicked out of mainstream schools, and she is a graduate of Harvard College. Carine enjoys gardening and is widely reputed to be the best auntie in the auntie game.
[bctt tweet=”How do you keep going? That’s not the question. HOW COULD YOU NOT? is the question we should be asking. ” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”It’s the moment you decide who you are going to be. That’s where the hope is.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”You can have the most progressive laws, but laws are just words on a page. I wish people would be more mindful of how they apply the laws. ” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”Just because something is legal, doesn’t mean it’s moral or just.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” via=”no”]
[bctt tweet=”I believe in the law, I love the law, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be questioned or critiqued. ” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” via=”no”]
Andrea Isabelle Lucas is founder of Barre & Soul, a successful, rapidly growing community of studios delivering Barre & Soul method classes, and challenging, athletic Vinyasa Yoga classes to strengthen body, mind & soul. Barre & Soul method fuses elements of ballet conditioning exercises, yoga, pilates and calisthenics for a total mind-body workout that never fails to challenge and uplift clients. Andrea has overcome personal challenges from teen pregnancy to domestic abuse, and is building an empire based on her expertise and passion for womens’ issues, mind/body wellness, and Barre based on the tradition of Lotte Berk method. She learned early how to fuel her inner fire through mind/body fitness, and has catapulted herself to entrepreneurial success. She is driven by a mission to support women everywhere to overcome barriers and pursue their biggest dreams with grace, grit and strength.
[bctt tweet=”I didn’t have all the resources I needed but I did have a fire in my belly! ” username=”andreailucas”]Take the biggest, scariest step that you can actually stomach today! If you keep doing that you get braver.
[bctt tweet=”Healing your relationship with your body is both therapeutic and empowering.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history username=”andreailucas”]
[bctt tweet=”Knowing you can count on yourself to take care of yourself is fundamental” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history username=”andreailucas”]
[bctt tweet=”It’s important to establish what you will and won’t stand for, and what you deserve” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history username=”andreailucas”]
[bctt tweet=”Don’t let your circumstances be an excuse for why you can’t take your power back.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history username=”andreailucas”]
Sarah Von Bargen is a writer, teacher, and founder of Yes & Yes. For the last nine years she’s been writing to a daily audience of 13,000 about life, happiness, money, travel, and anything else that catches her fancy. When she’s not on the internet, she’s eating cheese, talking to her pets, or trying to make her husband watch Friday Night Lights. Again.
[bctt tweet=”Your duty is to your readers, but it’s also to yourself, to live a life you’re proud of!” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”yesandyesblog” ]
[bctt tweet=”If nice middle-class white ladies like us were being killed by police &deported we’d take umbrage” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”yesandyesblog” ]
[bctt tweet=”If we don’t talk about this (racism or politics) it’s easy to assume we’re complicit.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”yesandyesblog” ]
Hiro Boga is a writer, teacher and mentor to visionary leaders who are shaping a world in which service and prosperity, soul and entrepreneurship, work hand in hand to create a world that works for everyone. Over the past thirty-five years, Hiro has helped thousands of clients and students reclaim joy, freedom, creative power and sovereignty in their businesses, their relationships, and their lives.
As a mentor and teacher, Hiro blends transformative energy technologies, the magic of story, and grounded spiritual practices with pragmatic business strategies. Hiro offers a core curriculum of self-study programs In energy alchemy and soul-centered business. She works privately with evolutionary leaders to bring their most creative visions to life through a skillful blend of inner and outer work. The results are both practical and profound.
Explore her writing, sign up for her free 7-day e-course, Sweet Success and the Soul of Your Business, and discover a wealth of other resources at HiroBoga.com. Connect with her on Facebook for daily doses of inspiration.
[bctt tweet=”When you withdraw from the world, you’re waiting for someone else to clean up the mess.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”hiroboga” ]
Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collection “Turn” (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards. A former academic specializing in race, identity, and culture, she continues to write and educate on these topics. Some of her essays and poems can be found at xoJane, The Huffington Post, Apogee, RHINO Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Vinyl Poetry, The Margins, The Collagist, The Mays Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge, and the Dear Sugar podcast. Wendy was born and raised in NYC and educated at Cambridge University, UK. She is the mother of two daughters and the proud daughter of immigrants.
[bctt tweet=”It’s much better to say the wrong thing with right spirit than to say nothing at all…Silence is complicity.” url= “https://declaredominion.com/history” username=””]
[bctt tweet=”Don’t put the burden on the marginalized to explain and educate you. Educate yourself.” url= “https://declaredominion.com/history” username=””]
[bctt tweet=”When you screw up that’s an opportunity to learn something, change and move forward. Don’t be ashamed.” url= “https://declaredominion.com/history” username=””]
[bctt tweet=”White people need to be talking to other white people (about racism)… you’re actually in a position to be heard by them.” url= “https://declaredominion.com/history” username=””]
Leila de Bruyne is the founder and executive director of Flying Kites. In the foothills of Kenya’s Aberdares Mountains, Flying Kites serves as a center of excellence. Here, critically-poor students receive a competitive education, integrative health and social work services and access to holistic support.
[bctt tweet=”The table of humanitarian work is fraught w/ problems.We make mistakes but we have to be at the table.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”fkglobal” ]
[bctt tweet=”We are more interested when good people fall flat on their face than when bad people do bad things.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”fkglobal”]
[bctt tweet=”Everyone in life should find a cause that they can’t walk away from.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”fkglobal”]
Susan Hyatt is a Master Certified Life Coach whose fierce, fun and fresh approach to personal development has won her thousands of fans on Facebook, glowing praise from icons like Dr. Martha Beck and Maria Shriver, and a sold-out coaching calendar — with many programs selling out in six hours or less.
Her motto? “Life is precious. Go make it delicious.”
As a woman who used life coaching principles to lose thirty-five pounds, upgrade her career, and revitalize her marriage, she’s a coach who truly walks her talk.
When she’s not coaching, blogging, or lighting up Facebook with her rant of the day, you can find her powering through dead lifts at her local gym or lacing up her sneakers for a 5am run. She lives in the Midwest with her husband Scott, aka the Silver Fox, her punk-rock-feminist daughter and Muay Thai-obsessed son.
Learn more about Susan’s private coaching options, retreats and programs like Clear Coaches, Make a Scene and BARE at: SHyatt.com.
[bctt tweet=”Being an advocate and an ally is just being a good human being. ” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”susanhyatt” ]
[bctt tweet=”Your life is worth making a scene over! We can NOT leave our sisters in the street!” username=”susanhyatt” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history”]
[bctt tweet=”I would love for women make a scene within themselves & just admit out loud what they really want.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”susanhyatt” ]
[bctt tweet=”It’s naive to think that when a woman finds & uses her voice everyone is going to love it.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”susanhyatt”]
I’m a professional editor, writer, and a certified Martha Beck Master Life Coach. I’ve had the great good fortune to edit bestselling authors such as Martha Beck, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher, President Jimmy Carter, Magic Johnson, and others, and now specialize in creating book proposals and helping authors find agents and in-house editors. My essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and more. I’m the coauthor with Rosalind Wiseman of Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads. Learn more about me at www.betsyrapoport.com and the imaginatively named www.betsyrapoportlifecoaching.com.
[bctt tweet=”When times are dark we need to write to keep ourselves grounded.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=””]
[bctt tweet=”When you make publication the shiniest brass ring, you’re giving away your power.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=””]
[bctt tweet=” If someone is unkind about your work, fuck that noise.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=””]
[bctt tweet=”Write as an act of FAITH.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=””]
Nisha Moodley is a Women’s Leadership Coach and the founder of Global Sisterhood Day. Inspired by the belief that the world will be set free by women who are free & sisterhood is key to a woman’s freedom, her work is focused on midwifing women back to sisterhood and the truth of their innate beauty and brilliance.
Nisha supports communities of women leaders in mastermind groups, retreats, and online courses, to live, love, and lead with depth and devotion.
[bctt tweet=”Sometimes you have to put down the thing you love and hold dear.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”askNisha”]
[bctt tweet=”What do you have capacity for at this time and what do you have to put down?” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”askNisha”]
[bctt tweet=”Everything is important but something is more important.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”askNisha”]
[bctt tweet=”The world will be set free by women who are free.” url=”https://declaredominion.com/history” username=”askNisha”]
Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine, The Fear Cure, and The Anatomy of a Calling is a physician, speaker, founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute, and mystic. Passionate about what makes people optimally healthy and what predisposes them to illness, she is on a mission to merge science and spirituality in a way that not only facilitates the health of the individual, but also uplifts the health of the collective. Bridging between seemingly disparate worlds, Lissa is a connector, collaborator, curator, and amplifier, broadcasting not only her unique visionary ideas, but also those of cutting edge visionaries she discerns and trusts, especially in the field of her latest research into “Sacred Medicine.” Lissa has starred in two National Public Television specials and also leads workshops, both online and at retreat centers like Esalen and Kripalu. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her daughter. She blogs at LissaRankin.com