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Storyteller Bios

Raised in Kenosha, WI — Tyrell Blacquemoss (he/they) is a prophetic dreamworker and descendant of a long line of African priests and Turtle Island medicine people. As a scholarly researcher with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with an emphasis in Africana Studies and Indigenous Studies from Cornell University, TBN reclaims and continues their family legacy of the science and art of dreaming. TBN has traveled globally studying with shaman, elders, and healers of the following traditions: African diasporic and Western Herbalism, Conjure, Hoodoo, Rootwork, Southern Folk Medicine, Pachakuti Mesa (Peruvian shamanism), Sonoran desert Curanderismo, Toltec - Chichimeca dreamplanting, and diasporic African and Japanese energy healing. They were a 2019-2020 fellow in Freedom School’s National Health and Healing Justice Fellowship. He has guest lectured in college classes, adapted dream practices for Waldorf education, and taught over 50 workshops nationally on dreaming with ancestors and landscapes. He performs using Medicinal Media and Ceremonial Theatre to speak to the malleability of time. He has developed a practice and theory of Black Indigenous Quantum Archiving as a method of retrieving information across time and space through dreams and natural materials such as metal and wood. He is the author of Equinox Dreaming Awake, Dreaming a Revision, and Growing Young Ndezi. He is the curator of Diasporic African Dream Anthology and is the award winner of the Thriving Communities Grant for Destroy the Black Nightmare, Birth the Dream, and a National Black Arts Forward’s Artist Project Fund Major Grant recipient.

Dr. Stephanie Burns (she/her/hers) describes herself as the journey. She finds freedom in allowing herself to feel, experience, and learn from her life paths/choices. Stephanie is an intuitive consultant who provides holistic spiritual care, specializing in generational and past traumas. Stephanie facilitates the Connecting with the Ancestors apprenticeship. She is a member of spirit grove - a collective of Black women intuitives committed to healing ourselves, our communities, and our Earth.

Iya Christina Springer (she/her) listens to the messages found in the spaces between molecules and then acts accordingly. Iya Christina Springer is an artist and entrepreneur whose work has been seen internationally. She has published four collections of poetry  most recently through (Frayed Edge Press,) worked in television, film and radio, exhibited in galleries, and designs for her own e-commerce business, Mmmm, Yes!  She is an Omo Obatala.

Jen the Rainmaker (she/her) is a Native Life and Dream Guide, Wisdom Carrier, and Medicine Carrier known as Jen The Rainmaker. She teaches ancient native traditional manifestation, healing, and dreaming practices that have been passed down for thousands of years by her Chichimeca/Toltec ancestors known as dream planting. She dedicates her life to guiding others by teaching them how to plant dreams and reprogram their subconscious while they sleep. She also teaches super lucid dreaming to create your reality and super lucid dreaming. Jen is a former corporate coach with a mission to leave a legacy that will help trillions of people live their dream lives.

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