Meet the Collective

Collaboration + Relationship starts here. Meet our bridge builders who vision a world where our purpose meets embodied action.

  • Azalea is a queer, second generation Chinese-American facilitator and therapist based in Columbus, OH. Passionate about collective liberation, conflict transformation, and somatics, Azalea finds home amongst other activists, “helpers”, and QPOC who are trying to make this place a little more beautiful. 

    As an ARC facilitator, Azalea loves to weave somatics, mindfulness, and reflection as tools for calling in body, mind, and spirit toward transformation. Azalea enjoys one-on-one coaching, working with other QPOC to take care of themselves and one another to resist the racialized demands of empire. 

    Azalea started off in community mental health and spent five years as a school social worker working with high school age youth doing crisis prevention and response as well as community care during COVID-19. Azalea is currently practicing as a licensed social worker providing mental health services in a private practice setting. 

    When not facilitating or doing other healing-related work, Azalea can be found birdwatching, reading, or exploring the world (and its cuisines!) with friends and family.

  • Roma comes from a lineage of Indian freedom fighters and advocates for gender equity. Their legacy of justice, care, and collective responsibility deeply informs her way of being in the world.

    She is a family medicine physician with a deep commitment to community wellness. She is a fierce advocate for patient dignity and health equity. Beyond clinical care, she supports individuals and groups in building meaningful relationships and cultivating effective communication to foster healing and belonging. For Roma, relationships are the foundation of resilient communities.


    With ARC, Roma focuses her energy on bridging the personal and collective—bringing structure to the complex work of healing while honoring the human spirit that drives it. Her gifts lie in making space for truth, guiding with empathy, and building systems that serve people—not the other way around.


    In her free time, Roma finds restoration in spending time with loved ones, getting lost in a book, and going on adventures. These practices remind her that she is not alone—and that the work of healing lives in both movement and stillness.

  • Christine has a long background in local community work, centered on collective healing– from community organizing to facilitating healing and grief circles. For nearly a decade, Christine has been a birthworker, supporting pregnant people and their families in their birth stories, advocacy, and choice. In all aspects of their work with people, she has guided them through transformative processes, whether individual, family, or community-focused, and into their visionary future with embodied values.

    With ARC, Christine focuses her efforts on applying these transformation skills to impact change on both personal and community levels to connect us with what’s important. Her gifts are deep listening, tapping into bravery in meeting growth edges, and supporting people as they take steps towards the unknown. She does this with reverence to the earth, lineage ancestors, and land ancestors.

    Christine is of Filipino (Ilokano) and Argentine (Corrientes // Taragüi) descent, the fourth and youngest child of immigrant parents. In her quiet time, she enjoys tending to her gardens, learning from ancestral and native plants, and making teas for her loved ones.