Project Leads
Our Project Leads stewards the project through fundraising, programming, administrative tending, creating community connections, prayer, and teaching.
Ale Abreu (they/she/he)
Alé Abreu ( Afro-Lenca Mestize) (They/She/He) Is a Black Indigenous Fat & Disabled Community Herbalist, Birthkeeper, Curanderismo practitioner, Community Educator, Acudetox Specialist, artist based in Coast Salish territory. Ale sees their work as a form of cultural, social, political, medical, & spiritual intervention essential to the Liberation & Sovereignty of all peoples. Ale currently offers workshops, community healing space curation, herbal consults, acudetox treatments, perinatal/ healing ceremonies in the borderlands & throughout Turtle Island.
Amaryah Wolf (he/they)
Amaryah (he/they) is a tboy of Black and Ashkenazi (white) ancestry who grew up in Coast Salish, Duwamish, and Puyallup/Swiftwater lands, surrounded by the seas, lakes, forests and mountains. Babies have always been his favorite people, and he is RaRa to many littles. He started his birthwork/lifewerq practice and involvement with Lifewerq Project in 2018, and view birthwork as community care, and a window into the shift towards a greater reliance on community and towards liberation as we navigate pandemic(s), ongoing genocides and climate crises. Alongside birthwork/lifewerq, Amaryah works in carpentry and loves spending time with the land and his family.
Guidance Council
Our Guidance Council supports the project by maintaining our commitment to our values, attending quarterly supportive meetings, and occasional programming, teaching and administrative tending.
Alphonse “Lain” Littlejohn (they/he)
Alphonse “Lain” Littlejohn (they/he) is a Black Midwestern Two Spirit queer Capricorn currently located on Potawatomi and Ho-Chunk land. They were a care companion for L.L Gimeno, the Lifewerq Project Director prior to the current Co-Directors, which brought them closer to end-of-life work and grief support. Lain currently organizes a national network of Black Trans lawyers, law students, and legal advocates. Their time is spent with friends, family, and their dog and turtle, Baxley and Patrick. Laughter, dance, and sleep are their favorite forms of medicine. <3
Rafael/a Luna-Pizano
Bio coming soon!
Ganesha Gold Buffalo
Ganesha Gold Buffalo is a Disabled, Black Indigenous cultural healer, ceremonialist, and matriarch of mixed ancestry; educator; national organizer; transdisciplinary performance and audiovisual artist; and community organization contractor. Hailing from rural Tennessee, currently residing in metropolitan Florida, and operating conjunctively out of Seattle, Ganesha centers radical care and hospitality in everything that she does. Ganesha’s drive stems from an ancestral calling to ignite the people with a hunger for reintegration from displacement and ethnocide, abolition of all colonial and neocolonial systems and systemic abuses, sex worker advocacy, food and land sovereignty, environmental justice, reproductive justice, youth protections, cultural reclamation, by-and-for community security and safety initiatives, and equitable resource building and redistribution via ancestral communion.
Riley Hewko
Bio coming soon!