Our Team
Brittney Washington (she/they)
Brittney is a Southern Queer Black Artist + Mama + Art Therapist + Doula + Strategist + Troublemaker. She is known for her work to disrupt the power arrangements that maintain structural racism and othering. Brittney's multidisciplinary approaches to her work apply an understanding that 1) our most important responsibility is dismantling the power arrangements that maintain oppression; 2) everyone has different points of entry into politicization and social justice movements; and 3) art is a powerful portal to healing, imagination, and movement for that purpose.
Through facilitation, she illuminates the historical events that have shaped our current experiences of racialized poverty, trauma, and disconnection, and does so within artfully curated spaces where people can be brave, vulnerable, and imaginative around the future we intend to build. She is an organizer; she teaches folks to build collective power for bending organizations, communities and policies toward justice.
Brittney has worked in Washington, DC for over seven years, collaborating with organizations such as Service to Justice, Miriam’s Kitchen, the Interagency Council on Homelessness, and Safe Places for the Advancement of Community and Equity (SPACES)—not to mention radical artists, movement groups, and community leaders. She has presented nationally on the intersection of race and homelessness and art for social change, and is an internationally sought-after racial equity consultant.
Through and beyond work, Brittney is perpetually looking for alternative ways to live, to think, and to be. You can find her doing any number of liberatory practices, including studying figure drawing, practicing yoga, learning breath and meditation techniques, occasionally moonlighting as a doula, managing an artist residency, getting over her fear of snakes, fostering dogs, and stumbling through new endeavors all the time. They currently reside in their home state of South Carolina, connecting movement wisdom, strategy, and imagination between the Upper and Deep South.
Estephany Brito (she/ella)
As an immigrant, advocate, educator, and organizer, Estephany Brito has been working to support young people of color for over 16 years. Hailing from the Dominican Republic, she has collaborated with youth throughout Washington, DC, PG County (MD), and Montgomery County (MD) to drastically shift their lived experiences toward safety, health, and self-determination. Desde niña, Estephany has used her BIG voice, vision, and passion to fight for those who have been historically marginalized. She reminds young people of their power to do the same.
Over the years, Estephany’s work has expanded to include efforts at the organizational and systemic levels of change. She coaches staff and leaders to decolonize their practices, and teaches antiracist principles as a co-director of the consulting collective, Service to Justice. Estephany also shapes the strategic goals of a large DC-based nonprofit as its Equity & Inclusion manager, helping model for the nonprofit sector what social transformation can be like within and beyond their walls. Estephany is a board member of the Shaw Community Center, and supports nurturing communal spaces and relationships with care and intention. As for her governmental work, Estephany is a committed U.S. Department of Justice Accredited Representative, whose mission is to represent clients before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She now represents the interests of Ward 4 Residents after being appointed to the DC Mayor’s Office of Racial Equity Advisory Council.
Estephany happily lives in Washington, DC with her husband, children, and pitbull pup. When she’s not actively working, you can find Estephany enjoying music, dance, travel, and connecting with loved ones.
Rebecca Mintz (she/her)
Rebecca Mintz (she/her) is a facilitator of transformative dialogue and practice. She holds space for dialogue on the individual level through coaching, the interpersonal or group level through political education and conflict transformation work, and on the organizational level through full-scale collective change processes. On all three levels, she works from a core belief that we can change (and be changed) toward collective liberation when we turn toward the challenging conversations that are calling from our growing edges.
As a member of organizational change facilitation teams, Mintz supports internal change leaders to pinpoint live questions that need to be explored. Often, these questions center around organizational strategy (what we are trying to do), structure (how we organize ourselves to do the work), and culture (how we “be” together as we work toward justice). Because these questions always intersect with dynamics of power and identity, Mintz works with internal change leaders to shape democratic processes, attending to and adjusting for power dynamics, so that people throughout the organizational ecosystem can contribute their key perspectives to the conversation toward change.
As a facilitator of conflict processes, Mintz uses a transformative justice approach that sees conflicts through a broader lens of social power and systems of oppression. With that starting view, she works with participants to determine a process for sharing feedback, boundaries, and requests; this process looks different in each case depending on the kinds and directions of harm, the power dynamics at play, and how those involved believe healing can happen.
Finally, as a political educator and healing-centered coach, Mintz supports people to become both healthier in their own right AND more effective contributors to social change. As a coach, she draws on various bodies of practice such as meditation, the enneagram, and somatics in order to help clients notice, name, and release limiting beliefs and habits, replacing them instead with liberatory practices such as courage, abundance, and interdependence.
Mintz is a mediocre but wildly enthusiastic singer, loves dogs and the woods and her constantly evolving spiritual practice, and lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.
On to adventure!
Consultants Nkechi Feaster and Kyla Dixon have moved on from their S2J roles. They’re out spreading their wings in the DC community doing facilitation, coaching, and co-creating with other dope organizations. Say hi when you see them!