Ariana CoveneyDirectorAriana has been a part of Consent Academy since 2018. She is an ordained Shingon Buddhist Monk, with a background in psychology, linguistics, and education focusing on violence prevention. She has lived and worked all over the world doing grassroots activism for LGBTQ+ rights and domestic violence prevention. Her perspectives on harm reduction and accountability are based in her Buddhism and her Choctaw cultural heritage.
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Asha LeraeConsent Educator & Co-Director EmeritusAsha Lerae has served with Consent Academy since 2018, taking on the role of co-director from 2021 - 2025. She brings years of experience as a sex educator, domestic violence support group facilitator, and advocate working with a wide variety of communities to strengthen consent culture. Her passion lies in using consent education to reduce harm, expand possibilities for pleasure and eroticism, support accountability, and inspire cultural change that balances autonomy with responsibility. Asha is also a certified abortion doula, trained full-spectrum doula, and former adjunct faculty member for the Sexuality Studies Certificate Program at Antioch University Seattle.
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Sar SurmickConsent Educator, Author, & Director EmeritusSar is an educator at heart: whether at the front of a class, speaking to a group or org, in the therapy room, working on a new book, or just walking down the street. With over 30 years of education experience and a strong belief that consent creates a backbone for safe and productive interactions, Sar teaches, consults, writes, and works on theory around Consent, Accountability, and Identity. When not teaching with the Academy, Sar is a professor with Antioch University, works as a MFTherapist and Supervisor, writes, and does her best to understand people and the way we move through a difficult and complex world.
Sar, a non-binary Trans Fem educator, helped bring Consent Academy together in 2016 as a way to advance consent education in Seattle and across the world. She was Director from 2016-2021. |
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Consent Academy is a volunteer-founded organization
From our inception to the present day, our curriculum and pedagogy has been crafted by a diverse group of individuals, including therapists, teachers, social workers, academics, consultants, students, sex educators, survivor advocates, and people who have lived and experienced the impact of broken consent. We acknowledge that Consent Academy would not exist without their contributions.