About Us

Advisors and Collaborators:

An evolving and expanding list:

Lynne Gerber - Audio Documentary Consultant:

Lynne is a writer, independent scholar, and producer of the podcast When We All Get to Heaven, which recently won a Peabody Award

Bill Bowers - Performing Arts:

Bill is a renown actor and mime who studied with the legendary Marcel Marceau and currently serves on the faculties of New York University, Stella Adler Conservatory, and William Esper Studios. He is also presently a Visiting Professor at Williams College. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and an Honorary PhD from Rocky Mountain College. 

shea in the catskills: Visual Arts, Esoterica  

shea is a queer artist, tarotist and cultural worker whose work is informed by the decade they spent in full-time residential Zen Buddhist training

Laura Annawyn Shamas: Playwriting & Mythology

Laura is a 2023 Winner of the Los Angeles New Play Project Award for her play FOUR WOMEN IN RED

Her background includes Chickasaw, English, French, Irish, Lebanese, and Scottish heritage. She is a Chickasaw Nation citizen.

Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Europe, the U.K., Canada and Australia. In the U.S., her shows have been performed in San Francisco; Chicago; New York; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; and other major cities. She also writes non-fiction and fiction. Her Ph.D. is in Mythological Studies.

Ariana Nedelman: Podcast & Production

Ariana is an audio producer based in Pittsburgh, PA. I’m the co-founder of Not Sorry, where I co-created Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Let’s Ask Taylor Swift, The Real Question and Hot and Bothered. In my spare time, I work on the independent audio project When We All Get to Heaven. I have my BA from the University of Chicago, a graduate certificate from The Salt Institute of Documentary Studies, and I enjoyed a brief stint at Harvard Divinity School before dropping out in 2017 to pursue podcasting. I don’t believe in God, but if I did I think they’d forgive me.

Gogo Khayela: Psychology & Indigenous Healing

Gogo is a sangoma, healer and academic, who teaches and does research at two South African universities.

She offers spiritual guidance and coaching, as well as an African indigenous-healing based services that strive to promote well-being, understanding and acceptance of life that is rooted and intent on ethical response to daily living.

Sarah Quinn - Audio Team/Podcast Coordinator: Sarah is a Sarah is a sociologist, teacher, and advisor. Her work focuses on how social systems shape daily life, and how we can locate possibilities for human flourishing within those systems.

Elizabeth Honer: Visual Arts and Video Coordinator:

Elizabeth is a graphic artist and animator with over 15 years experience of exploration into the world of dreaming. Her work was shown at the 2025 Annual Dream Conference for theInternational Association for the Study of Dreamsand her dream art was featured on the Fall 2025 cover of their periodical magazine DreamTime. 

Beth Howard - Dream Community Connector:

Beth is a cultural strategist, longtime southern community organizer, and author of Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Anti-Racist Solidarity From a Coal Miner's Daughterfrom Haymarket Books. She is a dream and tarot enthusiast and creator of To Return to My Trees, the first in a series of Dream Time Zines she is creating based on collaborative dreamwork.

Siri Colom: Podcast and Production Team

Siri is an urban sociologist who focuses on politics after disasters. She uses the lens of sociology to think about how structural oppression manifests and emerges in the everyday politics of people attempting to rebuild lives and homes. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Worcester State University and holds a PhD from the University of California Berkeley. She has recently been trained in radio production through Transom.