T. Aisha Edwards, LMHC (xe/she) is a somatic trauma therapist and educator based in Vancouver WA. Xe received xer Masters in Clinical Psychology from Pacific University and has concentrated on socialized oppressions, interpersonal violence, abuse and neglect in marginalized populations throughout xer decade-plus career.

​Prior to private practice, xe worked in community mental health, high acuity treatment settings and was an adjunct faculty at Portland Community College.

Xe uniquely weaves Gestalt, Somatic Experiencing, Early Developmental Movement Therapies, NeuroEmotional Technique and concepts from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western and Indigenous Herbalism into a holistic approach to mental health that fosters the primary relationship with the body as the vehicle to wellness, wholeness and connection.

Aisha is also the co-host of Emergent Liberation Collective, a podcast about somatics and spirituality as instruments for personal healing and collective transformation.

Amy Ruff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and currently serves as a case manager at a local university where they provides crisis support and assists students to connect with relevant mental health and wellbeing resources both on and off campus. Amy maintains the BIPOC and QT Therapists Guild (please inquire if you'd like to join!). When not working their 9-5 Amy is organizing for healing justice, providing gender affirming care to trans and non-binary folks, watching the Portland Thorns, and attempting to keep her garden alive."

Emma brings experience in operational and fiscal planning for nonprofits and municipalities to Radical Rest. Having worked with management consulting firms based out of St. Louis, MO, and Ann Arbor, MI, as well as serving as the Finance Director for Unite Oregon, she is well-versed in internal accounting practices, data development and analysis, grant-writing and management, and mission-driven budgeting and planning. After graduating with honors with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting Performance from Ball State University, Emma went on to receive her post-baccalaureate certificate in Accounting from Portland State.

She fundamentally believes that financial data should be highly accessible and comprehensible. Her role includes developing and maintaining strong, intuitive systems that facilitate creative, compliant, and financially sound decision-making.

When she's not balancing the books or creating timesheets, Emma enjoys hiking with her cute dog, keeping her plants alive, and attempting DIY projects (without disturbing her neighbors).ption goes here

Ridhi d’Cruz (they/them) is a gender wild, neurospicy, caste non-dominant Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India, and, in 2010, moved to the unceded lands of the Chinook people (Portland, USA) to pursue a graduate program in sociocultural and applied anthropology. Trained as a journalist, anthropologist, and culture worker, they fondly identify as a learner, facilitator and artist.

They root their life artistry in the intersections of place, healing, design and creative justices. They have dedicated over a decade of their life to cultivate liberatory processes, projects, and places that nourish people’s belonging to themselves, to Land, and to each other. You can find out more via ridhidcruz.net

Since 2023, ridhi has begun organizing with fellow members of the South Asian diaspora, through the Oregon Caste Abolition Collective to educate, organize and advocate for the dismantling of Brahmanical patriarchy and supremacy and its harmful impacts on over 3.7 million caste oppressed people worldwide.

And finally, after over a decade in the field as an urban Permaculture practitioner & educator through their previous work at City Repair Project, ridhi completed their Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) program and the Permaculture Teacher Training (PTT) hosted by Aranya Agricultural Alternatives in Jan- Feb 2023 and is returning to organizing in their homelands.

Darian Anthony Patrick is a musician and composer focusing on music originating in Black American and African diasporic traditions. More about him can be found at https://darianpatrick.com

Touk Keo (they/them) was raised in Salem, Oregon, after both of their parents fled the Khmer Rouge in April of 1975. Through witnessing and experiencing the impacts of genocide, Touk has taken upon themselves to find mentors like Grace Lee Boggs, to help them understand the world they see themselves thriving in, by "re-spiriting, re-building, and re-imagining” what that could look like. To them, it has meant creating spaces like the Radical Meditation for BIPOC communities to see the deeper truth of what it means to decolonize, re-claim identities, rename oneself, and to reconnect with spirits of their country that have also been displaced by U.S. occupation.

Touk has their Bachelor's of Science in Gender, Sexuality Studies, and Master's in Education and School Counseling. They're grateful for the work that they've been able to do in graduate studies focusing on the need for BIPOC liberation, community-driven change, and while asking for more accountability from their educational institutions. Much of their work in the community is centered on empowering Black and Indigenous people through fundraisers, community gatherings, and with their farm animals.

Touk is also an avid farmer with an herbal labyrinth, a quarter acre with veggies grown through companion planting, and 8 chickens, 2 goats, 2 kittens, a doodle pup and an incredible partner, Jeevan and beautiful liberated child Nayeli Nira.