Asha LeraeCo-Director
Asha Lerae has been a part of Consent Academy since 2018, teaching established curriculum, creating new workshops, facilitating discussion groups, and acting as a consent advocate and consultant. She is passionate about consent education as a way to reduce trauma, promote pleasure and eroticism, support accountability, and foster cultural change that balances autonomy with responsibility. Asha is also an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University Seattle, an AnteUp! certified sexuality, gender, and justice educator, a certified abortion doula, and somatic sex educator.
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Ariana CoveneyCo-Director
Ariana 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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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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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.
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Lara-Ashley MonroeConsent EducatorLara-Ashley has been teaching consent with the Academy since 2017, and has worked for many years to further conversations on consent in the Seattle area and during her travels abroad.
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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.
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