Melody Li (they/佢) is a mental health justice activist and licensed psychotherapist. They are proudly queer, nonbinary, neurodivergent, and Asian.

They founded Inclusive Therapists, a social justice and liberation-oriented mental health directory, resource & education hub, and community centering people with marginalized identities. (BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Neurodivergent, Disabled communities).

They also founded Mental Health Liberation, a non-profit organization bridging BIPOC individuals with free, culturally-responsive & identity-affirming therapy, and empowering students and emerging clinicians of the global majority.
Their activism focuses on collective liberation and healing.

KB Brookins (they/them) is a Black/queer/transmasculine poet, essayist, and cultural worker from Fort Worth, Texas. Their writing is published in poets.org, Huffington Post, American Poetry Review, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. KB is the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) and Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing, forthcoming 2023). They have earned fellowships and honors from PEN America, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Lambda Literary, and The Watering Hole among others. Their poem, “Good Grief”, won the Academy of American Poets 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize.

KB’s cultural work spans seven years. In that time, they founded and led two nonprofits (Interfaces and Embrace Austin) and contributed to many initiatives, such as Austin’s first LGBTQIA+ quality of life survey, inclusion of chosen names on the University of Texas at Austin diplomas, and serving as Project Lead for the Winter Storm Project. Currently, they are a board member with Ground Floor Theatre; community advisory board member with Texas PRIDE Health; MFA candidate with the New Writers Project at The University of Texas at Austin; and offer freelance arts and consulting services.

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Melody Li (they/佢) is a mental health justice activist and licensed psychotherapist. They are proudly queer, nonbinary, neurodivergent, and Asian.

They founded Inclusive Therapists, a social justice and liberation-oriented mental health directory, resource & education hub, and community centering people with marginalized identities. (BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Neurodivergent, Disabled communities).

They also founded Mental Health Liberation, a non-profit organization bridging BIPOC individuals with free, culturally-responsive & identity-affirming therapy, and empowering students and emerging clinicians of the global majority.
Their activism focuses on collective liberation and healing.