Experienced, Creative, Dynamic, Entrepeneurial!
This page celebrates and supports a number of amazing women who have appeared in my life as friends, family, teachers, or influences - past or present. These are brilliant entrepeneurs, healers, thinkers, and artists - most of them my contemporaries (but some are younger). Most have accomplishments too numerous to list here. Everyone here has added depth and richness to my life in ways both large and small, and I have immense appreciation for all of them! These are talented women you should know about! If they are in business, please patronize them!
This page is under construction - more names and links added daily! If you don't see yourself here yet - don't worry - this is an ongoing project and more names occur to me daily.
Chloe Milne, my mother. Quiltmaker extraordinaire. Former folksinger and hospice nurse.
Everyone else, in alphabetical order:
Tricia Allen - Expert in Polynesian tattoos; tattoo artist; lecturer; author of Tattoo Traditions of Hawai'i and The Polynesia Tattoo Today. Her work adorns my ankles.
Danielle Anderson-Castro - Community mobilization specialist, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health; and my hanai niece (daughter to Aunty Anita, below).
Aunty Anita - "Island goddess," mahuwahine activist, pageant promoter, radio host, and my hanai sister.
Bodhi Avinasha - Founder, Ipsalu Tantra; author of The Ipsalu Formula – A Method for TantraBliss and co-author, The Jewel in the Lotus (with Sunyata Saraswati).
The Rev. Cristhal Bennett - Founder, Silverlight Guidance Ministries; spiritual guide; teacher, Kundalini Kriya Yoga and Vinyasa Krama Yoga.
Lisa Berkelhammer - Accupuncture; blogger.
Dorothy Bevard - Writer, professor, intellectual.
Patti Britton, PhD. - Sexologist and sex coach; co-director, Sex Coach U; author, The Art of Sex Coaching.
Judith Brown Meyers, PhD. - Owner, The Judith Brown Company. Numerous accomplishments. My former mentor and friend.
Carol - Landscaper extraordinaire; singer; and my dog-walking buddy. Wonderfully wry and frequently hilarious. More info to come!
Ana Currie - Executive Director of Pasifika Foundation Hawai'i.
Lynette Cruz, PhD. - Hawaiian independence activist; a founder of Ka Lei Maile Ali'i Hawaiian Civic Club; retired professor of anthropology at Hawai'i Pacific University; board member, Pasifika Foundation Hawai'i; and my hanai sister.
Roz Dischiavo, EdD, MA, LADC - Founder, Center for for Sexuality Education, Enrichment and Enlightenment.
Marita Dorenbecher - Yountville City Council; events and public relations professional; formerly co-founder and past president of the Hypatia Cluster.
Cleo DuBois - Academy of SM Arts. See her newest website here! Brilliant BDSM coach and educator.
Ava Durga - Director, Creativesexuality.org
Mickey Farrance - Technical communications at BonitaSoft; instructor at Genoble Ecole de Management; formerly executive director of the Hypatia Cluster.
Alisa Foster - Artist, photographer, and my personal muse for insights into neurodiversity.
Marilyn Gordon - Center for Hypnotherapy; my primary hypnosis teacher.
Lori Greenleaf, PhD., MFT - Ericksonian hypnotist; environmental health activist and former board member, Environmental Health Network (of CA).
Zoe Gross - Vassar college student; disability rights activist; blogger at Illusion of Competence.
Heather S. Howard, MBA, PhD, ACS - Sexologist; specialist in pelvic pain; founder, Center for Sexual Health & Rehabilitation.
Shayna Nalani Huddy - More to come!
Debora Iyall - Singer, poet, artist, teacher. More to come!
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, PhD. - Author, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. Associate Professor of American Studies, Wesleyan University. Radio host: Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond. (And in another persona, aka D.J. Pineapple Krush).
Leah Kenaga - Yoga teacher; scientist; Senior Dharma Teacher and Vice Abbott at Empty Gate Zen Center.
Marcia Kerwit, MPH, PhD. - Now deceased. Feminist women's health activist; senior instructor, Healing Tao; founder, Women's Qigong Alliance. Very much missed!
Erika La Tour Eiffel - Renowned activist for objectum sexuality; artist; world champion archer; martial artist.
Lilia Lame - Amazing financial and investment teacher! See her blogs: Money and Lilia and Lilia's Money Musings.
Sharon Ledbetter - founder of Global Friendly; sustainable real estate agent; founder of the former Birth & Bonding International (doula training).
Isa Magdalena - Certified sexological bodyworker and somatic sex educator; author of my favorite sex book, Libido: Where Sex, Science, and Spirit Meet.
Kat McGuire - Ipsalu tantra teacher; world music singer. Recording CD "Gypsy."
Mary Milne - My aunt, now deceased. A loving and supportive influence throughout my life.
Christine Milrod, PhD., MA, LMFT - Sexologist; researcher; therapist, specialist in transgender concerns.
Eve Minax - Faculty, Academy of SM Arts.
Gwynn O'Gara - Sonoma County's Poet Laureate; teacher, California Poets in the Schools.
Vivienne Orgel - Social worker; musician; world traveller. (More to come.)
Aunty Puanani Rogers - Hawaiian independence activist and community leader, most recently in the fight against 'iwi desecration at Naue, Kauai. Advisor, Pasifika Foundation Hawai'i. Hula dancer and musician. We co-wrote "O Danny Boys, O Danner Girls" (a political spoof to the tune of "O Danny Boy").
Stephanie Sanders-Badt - Instructor and coordinator, Public and Human Services program at Berkeley City College.
Patricia Sorbye - Master hypnotherapist.
Fran Spector, MD - Primary care and hospice doctor; hula sister; ukulele singer and performer.
Penny "Kat" Sunlove - Free Speech Coalition.
Regina Wells - Rosen method teacher; bodyworker; singer and performer with Ojala.
Barb Wilkie - Now deceased. Former president of the Environmental Health Network (of CA). Very much missed!
Minoo Zabidi - Hair stylist, social activist, writer.