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. |
Draven AlexanderConsent EducatorDraven Alexander is at their most energetic when they are providing education surrounding Trauma and Systemic Trauma, Consent, Sexuality Studies, Pleasure Activism, Polyamory, BDSM, and social justice. Draven is a trauma processing educator, coach, and researcher who finds passion in supporting people to learn and explore their responses to behaviors from an eclectic mixture of intersectionality, decolonizing trauma-work, and embodied experiences. Draven is a life-long learner with a BA in Psychology and a M.Ed. in Counseling from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Draven is also currently working on their Ph.D. in Human Sexuality through the California Institute of Integral Studies, while simultaneously pursuing an AASECT Sexuality Educator Certification.
|
Sarah BurgartContent DeveloperSarah is a communications coach and trainer. She believes clearer and more compassionate communication with ourselves and others is essential to any movement towards more safety and happiness and away from violence and painful emotions. Consent culture has been a natural part of her journey; an area ripe with opportunities to improve communication and connect with each other. Sarah is excited about this collaborative effort, and about creating effective curriculum which is engaging and educational to all people.
|