Tobe Melora Correal – author, Finding Soul on the Path of Orisa – Yoruba-Lukumi priestess (Yemaya, 1990) – MA, Consciousness Studies (1996) – BFA, ceramic sculpture and hand-painted fabric (1990) – led “Grieving and Greens”, a day-long gathering of ancestral ritual, emotional catharsis, and food for Black Oaklanders (2016) – Izzie Award recipient for altar design (2019) – spiritual mother for house/full of Black women – ceremonial beadworker – shrine builder – community pray-er, nurturer and ritualist – death doula – culture keeper – living with chronic illness since 2005 – if well-resourced and sufficiently rested, would be indigo-dyeing cloth for the gods, channeling ancestors into clay figures, writing books on undoing the wounds of intergenerational Black trauma and actively mentoring other Black women in the sacred arts of transformational healing – currently, beyond exhausted but not giving up and in hot pursuit of my sweetest life.