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Keara is a Southeast Asian adoptivist (adoptee activist), creative, equity consultant and aspiring sex educator/intimacy coach. She facilitates critical dialogues about identity, intersectionality, power, privilege and radical love. She strives to co-create spaces of mutual accountability and learning - choosing to lead from a “heart space” while cultivating a strong sense of emotional responsibility in peers.

A former higher education and student affairs professional, she has supported students across the United States in their social identity development and advocacy through active, ongoing mentorship, student programs, affinity group advising and strategic planning. Keara is a trained Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) facilitator and received her B.A. in Sociology from Skidmore College and Ed.M. in Higher Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Since transitioning out of higher education and into the nonprofit world, they continue to engage local organizations, internal stakeholders and individuals in their role as the Diversity and Culture Manager at AbilityPath in the Bay Area . Keara has been a JEDI partner with Tosha CC since March 2021 and enjoys partnering with clients to ask critical questions and find collaborative approaches to advancing equity and inclusion within teams and across companies.

In her free time, Keara is also a hobbyist photographer, avid foodie and content creator for her sex education and intimacy coaching page (@sipwithkeara). She is deeply passionate about pleasure activism, platonic and radical love, vulnerability in communication and embodied liberation. Keara also finds joy in astrology, being a resource “plug” for chosen family, the “small wins” of work and play, rest and ongoing healing.