Asha Lerae

Consent Academy Co-Director

Asha Lerae has been a part of the Consent Academy since 2018, teaching established curriculum, creating new workshops, leading 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 AnteUp! certified sexuality, gender, and justice educator, a somatic sex educator, certified yoga teacher, certified abortion doula, and domestic violence support group facilitator.​

Ariana Coveney

Consent Academy Co-Director

Ariana 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. ​​

Sar Surmick

Consent Educator, Author, & Director Emeritus

Sar 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 25 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 works as a MFTherapist, writes, and does their best to understand people and the way we move through a difficult and complex world. 
Sar helped bring the Consent Academy together in 2016 as a way to advance consent education in Seattle and across the world and was Director from 2016-2021.

Lara-Ashley Monroe

Consent Educator & Volunteer Coordinator

Lara-Ashley has been teaching consent with the academy since she started working with us in 2017. Before that she has worked to further conversations on consent in the Seattle area and during her time abroad. 

Mia Fine

Consent Educator & Advocate

Mia (they/she) is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in both private practice (Mia Fine Therapy, PLLC) and group practice (PNW Sex Therapy Collective). Operating from the lenses of Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and Social Justice, Mia works with clients navigating eroticism, intimacy, sexual health concerns, kink, LGBTQIA+ genders and sexualities, and non-monogamous relationships. They are on the Board of Directors for Pan Eros and are a Consent Advocate passionately encouraging both consent and education from the individual level to the systemic. 
Mia is an adjunct professor at Antioch University and Institute for Sexuality, Education, and Enlightenment (ISEE). Mia presents at national and local conferences and facilitates continuing education for upcoming sex therapists, educators, and counselors. When they’re not working, you can find Mia practicing self-care by climbing mountains, spending quality time with people and pets, and finding new ways to adventure.

Sarah Burgart

Content Developer

Sarah 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. ​

Fredrick Zal

​Consent Educator

Fredrick’s sexuality education work has focused upon erotically marginalized communities, partnerships, and individuals since 2006 by "Teaching the Art within Sexual Acts" in private lessons, semi-public and private events, and workshops in Oregon, Washington, California, British Columbia, and via Zoom worldwide.  They teach mindfulness, ritual, communication, consent, sexual attitudes reassessment, tantra, kink, and other embodied erotic pathways with an ever broadening understanding of power differentials, socio-political impacts over the centuries, and ways to truly dismantle what they feel in their blood and bones to be a corrupt and flawed acculturalized system.  When not teaching or doing sexuality research; Fredrick endeavors to focus life around what they love, which is the arts, getting outside for adventures, sharing quality time and food with friends, and movement such as yoga and dance.

Leah Hirsch       

Outreach Coordinator 

Leah is a transplant to Seattle from the midwest. She excitedly joined the Consent Academy in 2016 as their Outreach Coordinator and as a Consent Educator. Leah began her work in consent and sexuality education at Iowa State University, and continued this work as a clinic assistant for Planned Parenthood. Since moving to Seattle, Leah has become very involved with the Pan Eros Foundation (formally the FSPC) education program. She currently works there as Assistant to the Director. 
​Rachel Drake
Consent Educator 

Rachel is a Success Coach, educator, event producer, and author. She helped found the academy in 2016 and has been educating and coaching adults since 1998. In the mid 2000’s she honed in on her passion for healthy consent, sex and relationship dynamics. Since then she has helped thousands of people transform their lives and transition to success and personal freedom.
Rachel is currently working on her degree in Community Health Outreach and Education and expanding her Consent for Leadership workshop series to include Transformative Accountability for Leadership. 
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