WHO WE ARE
The Healing and Reconciliation Institute consists of skilled facilitators, educators, peacemakers, culture keepers, environmentalists, and artists who are dedicated to bridging Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives.
Board of Directors
Bryce Henney (he/him)
Board Chair
Ashkenazi Jewish and Christian Lebanese, in the Lands of the Squamish, Musqueam, Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla (Vancouver, BC)
Shayne Regalado (she/her)
Board Treasurer
Filipina in the Lands of the Tamien Nation and Muwekma Ohlone (San Jose, CA)
Marin Hambley (they/them)
Board Secretary
Lands of the Mechoopda and Kojomk’awi / Konkow (Chico, CA)
Ali McMorrow (they/them)
Council Member
Mixed Nor Rel Muk Wintu, Mexican, and White, in the Lands of the Mechoopda (Chico, CA
Past Board members include: Siana Sonoquie, B Stacey Villalobos, Gina Perez-Baron, Stephanie Beaver-Guzman, Eli Painted Crow, Mary Stroupe, and Louellyn White
General Circle
Maya Sedillo (she/her/ella)
Interim Executive Director
Mixed Xicana of Chichimeca and European descent, in the lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone (Pescadero, CA)
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Born and raised in a rural corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, Maya’s background is rooted in the lived experience of place-based and community-centered solutions. Her multi-generational family legacy of lateral service to BIPOC communities is rooted in the United Farmworkers Union, the Civil Rights movement, the desegregation of San Jose urban school districts, healthcare on rural reservations, teen substance abuse prevention, and youth leadership. She is proud to steward HRI’s mission and vision in 2024, and is humbled and grateful to do so while reconnecting under the guidance of her trusted and beloved Indigenous elders and advisors.
When she’s not hopping between to-do lists and meetings she can be found reading, artsy-ing, playing in the Pacific (whenever tides allow), and planning her next adventure around the world- as soon as she responds to that one last email!
Hellos, questions, and silly memes can be sent to maya@hricommunity.org
B. Stacey Villalobos (they/them)
Lead Facilitator
Chicanx, in the lands of the Cahuilla and Yuhaviatam/ Marrenga’yam (Morongo Valley, CA)
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Stacey Villalobos is a queer, non-binary femme with native & ancestral roots in Jalisco, México. They are currently living and working between the Mojave & Colorado deserts in Southern California, on Cahuilla & Serrano lands. Their work focuses on conservation, spirituality and community engagement. Their interdisciplinary art practice currently involves performance, video, photography and covers themes surrounding ecology, relationships, and cultural practices.
Stacey is drawn to facilitation and peacemaking as an opportunity to use their gifts for healing & reconciliation, taking great joy in holding space for others especially as it pertains to bodies, land and spirit.
Barbara Bain (she/her)
Director of Protocols & Practices
Shasta-Kanaka in the lands of the Chumash (Santa Barbara, CA)
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Dr. Barbara Bain is Upper Klamath Shasta-Hawaiian and Anglo living on Chumash and Upper Klamath Shasta lands. She is a recognized a member of the Shasta Indian Nation of Northern California.
Dr. Bain is an Indigenous psychologist who holds a PhD in Depth Psychology, a Master of Science in Cultural Resource Management, and an advanced certification in Dream Tending with master dreamworker Dr. Stephen Aizenstat. Dr. Bain is considered one of the top 40 dreamworkers in the world today and is an is an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is also the owner and operator of Indigenous Awakening Consulting.
In her professional work beyond HRI Dr. Bain presents, moderates, teaches, and publishes on the decolonization of California Indians as well as the personal and community wellbeing of Indigenous peoples world-wide. she lives in Santa Barbara, California with her two sons and can be reached at barbara@hricomunity.org
Facilitator Team
B. Stacey Villalobos (they/them)
Lead Facilitator
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Stacey Villalobos is a queer, non-binary femme with native & ancestral roots in Jalisco, México. They are currently living and working between the Mojave & Colorado deserts in Southern California, on Cahuilla & Serrano lands. Their work focuses on conservation, spirituality and community engagement. Their interdisciplinary art practice currently involves performance, video, photography and covers themes surrounding ecology, relationships, and cultural practices.
Stacey is drawn to facilitation and peacemaking as an opportunity to use their gifts for healing & reconciliation, taking great joy in holding space for others especially as it pertains to bodies, land and spirit.
Maija West (she/her)
Peacemaker, Advisor
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Maija is an advisor, peacemaker and former attorney. As a person of both Latvian and German heritage, raised in Maidu territory where the Sierras meet the Cascades, her vocation is to offer support for healing and reconciliation so that we can be in right relations with our own lineage, with each other, and with mother earth.
Maija carries a degree in Community Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law, a collection of certifications in advanced mediation specific to families and diverse communities, and has been privileged to have had the support of a deep circle of advisors and healers through her process of learning. Maija's former profession as a lawyer for both rich and poor gave her a unique and privileged view of humanity that is central to her commitment to compassionate action.
Combined with time spent living and working at the edges of Indigenous communities, and with Indigenous leaders who have largely informed and reinforced her world view, she now offer support to individuals and organizations who have also chosen to walk this path. Choosing it has given her the great honor to work with incredible individuals and organizations over the years, beyond her greatest imagination.
Charlene Eigen-Vasquez (she/her)
Senior Consultant, Peacemaker
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Charlene Eigen-Vasquez, J.D. is of Ohlone and Mexican descent. Her Ohlone homeland is along the coast of California, and extends from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Carmel Valley. She is dedicated to land back initiatives, land preservation, land restoration and environmental justice because she feels that these initiatives have a direct impact on physical and mental health.
As a mother and grandmother, she decided to complete a law degree so that she might become a stronger force serving Indigenous communities. Today she hones in on regenerative leadership strategies, leveraging her legal skills, peacemaking skills and mediation skills to advocate for indigenous interests, negotiate agreements and build relational bridges.
Charlene also serves as Chairwoman of the Confederation of Ohlone People, Co-Chair of the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian Council and Board Vice President for the Santa Clara Valley Indian Health Center.
Marc Elcock (he/him), Facilitator Team
Neil Takemoto (he/him), Facilitator Team
Andy Kull (he/him)
Peacemaker and Facilitator
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Andy Kull is a father, husband and peacemaker from Wabanaki country (Maine). After transitioning away from a long standing business and nonprofit legal practice, Andy now serves as consultant, peacemaker, and counsel in diverse matters that make a difference, including land return and reconciliation projects. Andy comes from mixed European ancestry and has degrees from Brown University and Maine Law. His most precious mentors are the elders, masters and friends he’s had the great good fortune to know and love over the past 25 years.
Andy is a founding board member of Nibezun, an Indigenous-led nonprofit on sacred land in Maine.
Annabelle Berrios (she/her), Facilitator Team
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Annabelle is a consultant, peacemaker and former attorney. She has ancestral roots in Boriken, the Taino name for Puerto Rico, where she was born and raised, and has a mixed ethnic ancestry. She currently resides in the ancestral lands of the Ohlone, now known as Berkeley, California.
Annabelle has a law degree from Boston College Law School. She also has a Master of Arts in East West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she focused her studies in terrapsychology and holistic education. She is one of the contributing authors to the book Terrapsychology: Further Inquiry Into Self, Place and Planet, edited by Craig Chalquist and Garret Barnwell.
As a consultant and a facilitator, Annabelle supports nonprofit and philanthropic organizations to experiment with fresh ways of expressing authentic solidarity by reflecting, re-imagining and restructuring the way they work. As a peacemaker, supported by a community of peers and mentors, she is practicing how to embody the spirit of reciprocity in all of her relationships.
Klarity Coleman (she/they)
Facilitator Team
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Klarity Coleman has Finnish and German heritage, grew up in Pacific Grove on the Monterey Peninsula in California. Klarity uses she/they pronouns. She resides on the ancestral lands of the Esselen, Rumsen, and Ohlone Indigenous Nations. She was previously known as Kaye in her peacemaking work and is transitioning to her more authentic self as Klarity.
Her peacemaking journey began when she witnessed the twin towers collapse on 9/11/2001 and attended her first peace protest in New York City on 9/16/2001. She worked as a mental health worker in the Brooklyn Women’s Shelter serving women diagnosed with mental illness and chemical addiction. She began her restorative justice activism in January 2016 when she first met and began speaking with Activist and Descendent Gerry Low-Sabado about how to change the Feast of Lanterns (FOL) in Pacific Grove, California. In October 2021, Klarity publicly apologized for her personal racism in participating in the FOL and called the City of PG to action. She began formal training with the Healing and Reconciliation Institute in January of 2020. She worked alongside the Coalition for Asian Justice to address the Board of Directors for the FOL and the City of Pacific Grove to take a hard look at the event. This resulted in the FOL being dissolved and a formal public apology issued to the AAPI community at the Walk of Remembrance on May 14, 2022.
Klarity is a freelance facilitator with HRI. In her professional life she has a private practice, is a clinical hypnotherapist, a facilitator of classes and retreats.
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My name is Marc Elcock, and I go by the pronouns he/him. I am of Caribbean descent, but I was raised on the original lands of the Lenape (Lenapehoking) which is now politically designated as New York City. I currently live in Iowa on the ancestral lands and territory of the Baxoje, or Ioway Nation.
I am an educator, attorney, judge, and peacemaker, with graduate training in forensic psychology, public health, public administration, and restorative justice. I believe in the power of connection, healthy relationships, and community, and I use my experience to help support those who have been harmed.
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Neil Takemoto (Hawaii Kamaʻāina, Japanese) has worked in regenerative community development for 30 years, supporting thriving places, circular culture and systems change. He is co-founder of the Indigenous Regenerative Wellness Center Initiative, to develop community places of recovery, wellness and advocacy that support a regenerative culture, based on indigenous values. He is an advisor to Advocates of Sacred, whose mission is to champion, cultivate and integrate indigenous healing modalities, and the Recover Me In Wellness Center, a clinic and ceremony space supporting regenerative recovery, wellness and advocacy for indigenous communities and beyond.
As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates community organizing with urban revitalization. This included empowering 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He founded a national trade association for regenerative development and placemaking, and published 1700 posts on regenerative development and systems.
Neil’s heritage is Japanese, born and raised in Hawaii in an indigenous-centric culture that honors Native Hawaiian heritage.
Sandhya Atkinson (she/her), Facilitator Team
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Sandhya Atkinson (she/her) is a white-bodied, cisgender female facilitator descended from Celtic and other European ancestry. Originally from the waters and lands of the Chumash people in what is now called Santa Barbara, CA, Sandhya now occupies the traditional homelands of the Nuuchiu (Ute), Diné, Jicarilla Apache and Pueblos peoples in Southwest Colorado. She is fascinated by our human relationship and connection to the natural world and more-than-human beings.
As the Founder and Lead Facilitator of Sagebrush Ltd., Sandhya facilitates community circle processes, organizational strategic planning, retreats, and training, and community coalition work with diverse groups in Southwest Colorado and beyond. Her intention is to hold space for all voices to be heard so that powerful collective decisions and actions can be taken for more equitable and interconnected communities, living right-relationship with the earth. Sandhya is a member of the International Association of Facilitators, and has completed a Mastery of ToP (Technology of Participation) facilitation methods.
Participating in the Healing & Reconciliation Institute’s Learning Journey and Facilitator Trainings have inspired her to more deeply commit to peacemaking, both interculturally and intergenerationally.