Aaron Johnson is a facilitator, public speaker, and touch activist. As co-founder of both Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action, Aaron takes the time to hold the stories of black people around internalized racism and those that are Chronically UnderTouched. Because oppression is a part of American culture, the impact of lineage stories should be held as a map for our collective healing. Aaron reaches for that healing through song, meditation, and earth grounding. Aaron is also co-owner of Stellar Village folk school, a mostly-online community dedicated to the skills of kinship tending

Alexa Lux is a singer/songwriter, community singing facilitator, and founder of Cascadia Folk Choir. Guided by a belief that every voice carries inherent wisdom, Alexa blends folk-inspired songwork, somatics, and accessibility-centered teaching to create spaces where adults rediscover their musical belonging. Her work bridges song circle culture, choral craft, and full-band performance, inviting singers into healing, connection, and courageous expression through simple, soulful, earth-rooted music.

Alyx Somas is a Reindigenization Practitioner enlivening indigenous lineage wisdom to help our people re-member our most true nature – deep beauty and interdependence.  Trained in cultural movement, group facilitation, and somatic healing, they hold communal spaces and ceremonies, consultations for organizations, and one-on-one sessions in Collective Liberation Practices, Ancestral Reclamation, Decolonial Power and Relationship Structures, Emergent Ritual, and Healing Plácticas. They are grateful to continue collaboration within the Cascadia Song Rise Council as a Cultural Vision Steward. Connect with them on IG @CollectivityProject and at their website The Collectivity Project. 

Bex Lipps (they/them) is a queer & nonbinary artist, song carrier, facilitator, performer, and mental health therapist. A firm believer in the power of art, music, and creativity to foster individual and collective healing, they bring an electric energy and love of embodied expression to community singing and their own musical artistry. Bex is guided by the wisdom of movements for collective liberation and delights in holding spaces that honor the vulnerability and richness of the human experience with reverence and levity.

Binah is a co-founder of Cascadia Song Rise and serves as co-creatrix on the 2026 Council. When she’s not busy taking care of busyness such as logisticating and anticipating needs and problems in her organizing, she can be found in the community garden, tending the goats and sheep, making cheese, taking walks and working towards building community resilience in the face of collapse.

Daniel's childhood life was formed in deep relationship with the wild jungles and ocean on the island of Borneo, learning the language, songs and teachings of that land and those waters. That love continues now with life on the island of Kaua'i, learning the language, songs and teachings of these lands and waters. Daniel leads a choir on Kaua'i called Sacred Earth, and loves community gathering together to Sing! We honor the Earth as Holy, singing together with all Beings.

Danny Revell (formerly Osprey) is a nonbinary singer-songwriter and song leader descended from Scotch-Irish and German settler colonists. Their songs have been sung at rallies and marches, and have broadly taken flight through the community singing circuit. Danny’s catchy tunes stay in your head for days, but it’s all good because they hint at answers that are relevant to now. A blend of queer-folk-pop, their songs are genuine, heartfelt, and easy to sing along to.

Darlissa Andrea (All Pronouns) @darlissa.andrea is a Puerto Rican, Hawaiian and Cape Verdean song carrier and community builder currently living in Portland, Oregon. Darlissa's powerful vocals and fierce, grounded presence bring community into connection and belonging. Darlissa’s songs are centered around land, liberation, and shifting culture. With deep care for this world, Darlissa’s music invites us to remember who we are, heal together, and imagine a more whole and liberated future.

Dodie Whitaker (she/her) is a dynamic community song leader, performer, and educator who brings 40+ years of musical expertise and infectious joy to every gathering. Co-author of Who is Community Singing For? and artistic DEIB consultant, she creates inclusive musical spaces where all voices matter. Weaving her biracial, Jewish identity and commitment to racial justice into her work, Dodie inspires communities to sing, connect, and organize together. She lives in Wisconsin's beautiful Driftless Region.

Grisha Stewart is a neurodivergent queer community weaver, dog trainer, and author who catches easy-to-carry pocket songs to de-program intergenerational trauma and build joyful resilience. She is a co-founder of Stellar Village, a diverse global folk school for belonging. Stellar Village nourishes deep collective healing with transformative mostly-online events that weave community singing, grieving, listening spaces, and relational skills. Grisha developed the kinship tending team and Rest & Rejuvenation Station at Cascadia Song Rise.

http://stellarvillage.com (and pocket songs can be linked to grishastewart.com/songs)

Karly Loveling is a seasoned songleader, songwriter, and permissionary of heartfelt expression. For over two decades, she has been guiding voices and hearts. Karly leads Singing Heart, a connection-oriented, joyful singing group in Eugene and online. And she is featured at community singing gatherings across the country, including an upcoming retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs. Karly’s often playful, layered, and meaningful original songs are sung by songleaders from Appalachia to Ireland. Join her newsletter: https://singingheartharmonies.com/

Katie loves to lead groups in song. She writes layered part songs to remind us of simple truths. Her song circles are welcoming, heartfelt, moving and fun. She is a graduate of the Ubuntu Network’s Community Choir Leadership Training as well as Lisa Littlebird’s Flight School.

Katie’s songs have traveled to Hawaii, Victoria BC, Denver CO, and Big Sur CA and elsewhere. Katie is also a singer/songwriter, band leader and a mother.

Kavana co-founded Cascadia Song Rise in 2023 with Binah Joy, birthing this song weaving gathering into being. In 2026 she serves on our Council. Blessed with a calling to help groups function well, in the past few decades Kavana has worked with hundreds of organizations of all kinds. She is also the founder of the nonprofit collective that produced the Group Works deck currently in use by people in dozens of countries around the world.  She loves to sing! www.effectivecollective.net

Kjersten Hallin (She/They) @kj_creatrix Beauty Activist, Earth Lover, Eco-Edutainer, Song Carrier, Wasterument Maker, Grief Tender, Ritualist, Mother and Co-Creatrix of Song Rise, sharing CommUnity BlesSings song weaving on Kalapuyan land throughout Willamette Valley. Kjersten offers gifts of song as ritual communion with the living world, with an alive sense of wonder and deep appreciation for the beauty and complexity of this time and space we inhabit together.  kjerstenhallin.bandcamp

Laurence’s songs are easy to learn; mostly layered, often with several phrases taken from inspiring writings, and sung in a gently challenging rhythmic and melodic interplay.

Folks support each other in holding their particular part, then experience the pleasure of blending with other parts to co-create a tapestry of harmonic beauty, rhythmic interest, and shared meaning that nourishes our souls and restores our vision for living into the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

(they/them) @liminalsong is a Siberian and Ukrainian song carrier, musician, and earth steward devoted to land, community and healing. In their life they have been a refugee, an immigrant, and lived through communist dictatorship and war. Those experiences have informed and shaped their relationship with land, place, community, and the music that comes through them. Their dynamic, enchanting medicine music reverberates deeply and weaves tenderness, prayer, remembrance, and meaningful transformation. Loujká is also the founder and executive director of @kindnessfarm

Lydia is a community organizer, facilitator, artist, and dedicated student of Joanna Macy’s.  She created School of the Great Turning after witnessing repeatedly the power of group learning focused on ecological education, social justice, and spiritual healing. Her life’s work lives at the intersection of ecological consciousness, community organizing, cultural healing, and community resilience. As someone raised within the Iranian-Armenian-American diasporic experience, she knows deeply the ache of cultural severance and the longing for belonging. This has led her to generating vital practices of ancestral remembrance, song, and community ritual—supporting others in recovering their cultural lineages while tending to the Earth.

Ruth Hoffecker has loved singing since birth. She seeks in her teaching to reawaken the ancient memory of tending the Earth with our voices, singing to feed the changing seasons. And singing together as we move through life’s passages of birth, growth and death.

She studied for 10 years with Master Teacher of The School of Uncovering the Voice Christiaan Boele. Ruth founded the Ashland School of Uncovering the Voice in Ashland, OR where she teaches singing and leads community singing projects, workshops, and retreats.

Sommer Fawn Moselle (Xamada, Dj*Xa), is a vocalist, music producer, recording artist, DJ, ceremonialist and sound healer following the Golden Path of Plant Spirit Medicine. She is committed to the continual cultivation of beauty, love, compassion, wisdom, peace and understanding for the transformation and benefit of all beings through sound, music, dance, expressive arts, deep ecologies and community engagement.

Born in the waters of the PNW, Margaret is a singer, songwriter, vocal coach, sheep farmer and textile artist whose songs are deeply informed by intimate relations with nature. Margaret’s voice and music are lyrically enchanting, utilizing the stories of the animate world to reinvigorate our remembrance of belonging. Through life-affirming musical prayers and an invitation into the imaginal realms of song crafting, Margaret weaves an enriching community singing experience, bringing a deep relationship to place as a resident and steward of local Alsea lands.