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Sar SurmickConsent Academy DirectorSar brought the Consent Academy together in 2016 as a way to advance consent education in Seattle and across the world. With over 20 years of education experience and a strong belief that consent creates a backbone for safe and productive interactions, Sar has worked with the Pan Eros Foundation (formally the FSPC), NCSF, Camp Ten Trees, and a variety of other organizations to promote and educate about consent. When not directing the Academy, Sar works as a Marriage & Family Therapist specializing in Identity, a Sex-positive Educator, and a writer.
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Rachel DrakeConsent Educator & AdvocateRachel 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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Mia FineConsent Educator & AdvocateMia (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. |
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Sarah BurgartCoordinatorSarah 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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Asha LeraeConsent Educator & AdvocateAsha Lerae is a sex and consent educator, support group facilitator, and certified yoga teacher. She has been with the Consent Academy since mid-2018, teaching our established curriculum, creating new workshops, and leading discussion groups. She is passionate about consent education not only as a way to prevent trauma, but also as a practice that promotes pleasure and eroticism, and even has the potential to create a more just world.
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Leah HirschOutreach CoordinatorLeah 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.
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Lara-Ashley MonroeConsent Educator & New Volunteer CoordinatorLara-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.
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Rose Luna HillockConsent Educator & DiplomatRose is an educator, coach, and counselor. She works as a counselor/case worker for foster and adoptive minors and specializes in LGBTQI+ people as well as a content expert on Transgender health. She has always advocated further education and sex positivity, being open and available to share information and support when able. She is currently in the process of working on Consent for the Trans/NB person. She has been in the greater Seattle area since 2013, having previously lived in San Diego.
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Fredrick ZalConsent EducatorFredrick’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.
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These folks and others not seen here are volunteers working hard to help build Consent Culture and promote Consent Education in the world. It's a lot of work, but they're putting in the hours to make things better.
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