Micknai Arefaine (she/they) is a cultural organizer, educator, chef, and birthworker. She is the owner of Za Gualay Consulting, where she works with organizations that are looking for deeply transformative and holistic experiences that center justice, equity, belonging, healing, and dismantling the systems of oppression. She designs and facilitates experiences that help empower collaborators to dream up and co-create alternative ways of living, laboring, loving, shaping spaces and time, and inhabiting the land together. She enjoys cooking for her business Habesha Flavor, organizing with the BlaQ Qiln Collective, talking to plants, strolling around Baltimore, and nerding out on science fiction. This episode’s community shoutout goes to Sea Mason (@sea_arte). Check Sea out and show some love! Venmo: SEA-MASON
