About the Authors
Sarah JAwaid
Sarah Jawaid craves connectedness with the world around her. It is through this desire that she believes in the power of people to be connected to one another, heal together, witness the beauty in each other, and be changed by that witnessing to stand against injustice that impacts any one of us. Sarah wants to build a basket, put in all the essential stories of healing, and hand the basket off to future generations so that they have greater ease. As a practicing Muslim, Sarah is a spiritual seeker connected to those who have carried a message of peace and ease before her. When she’s not coaching or coach-training, she is usually trying to find a great place to eat with her family. She is a mama, partner, and lover of life.
Damon Azali-Rojas
Damon Azali-Rojas is an experiment of the Orisas. They decided to splice spiritual, cultural, and political DNA from the African Diaspora and conjure this Black man in the occupied Tongva/Gabrieleño/Kizh Land known as South Central Los Angeles. And thus as a settler on Indigenous Land he sees that some of his main work in this incarnation is to address the generational harms against Indigenous people. Damon wants us to know that we are all divine and connected spiritually no matter what practice one performs. Damon also thinks that having that divinity act through each of us can sow the seeds of healing individually and generationally, bloom justice, and allow us to cultivate both the BIG Liberation we dream of and the little liberation that we can attain every single day. Damon comes to this as a trained community organizer, an Ifá priest, a prison abolitionist, a parent of a neurodivergent child, a coach, a coach trainer, and a capoeirista. Damon loves Afro-sci-fi, playing the berimbau, and thinks Lewis Hamilton is the G.O.A.T. He lives with his two children, Maceo (14) and Fasola (8), and his partner Cynthia.