
About Us
Welcome to Liberated Together
We create healing spaces for Women of Color, Queer WOC, non-binary and trans folks who have been shaped by Christianity to exhale, connect, and reimagine faith and justice work in ways that are life-giving and sustainable.
Too often, we’re expected to rest just enough to keep working. In Christian spaces, harmful theology reinforces this exhaustion. Liberated Together exists to disrupt that cycle. Here, you’ll find space to rest, explore theology rooted in liberation, and build real solidarity across racial and ethnic lines.

Who We Serve
We’re creating what we never had but always needed.
At Liberated Together, we create space for Women of Color, Queer WOC, trans and non-binary folks of color to explore what it means to lead authentically and pursue justice in ways that are spiritually and culturally grounded.
We’re building community rooted in joy, rest, and liberation — where your story, culture, and spirituality are welcomed, not questioned.
Many of us have spent years holding everything together for everyone else. But we believe healing, justice, and belonging don’t have to come at the cost of ourselves.
The Heart of Our Work
We’re not just tending to burnout and disillusionment — we’re tending to the imagination.
White supremacy shrinks our vision of what’s possible. It tells us we have to choose: justice or joy, faith or freedom, leadership or belonging. But we know a deeper truth.
At Liberated Together, we’re reclaiming a version of faith that integrates our culture, our intuition, and our lived experience. We’re healing so that we can imagine — and build — the world we actually want to live in.
A world where our liberation is not an afterthought, but the foundation.
Where our healing is not separate from our justice work — but central to it.
Where the sacred shows up in our rest, our resistance, and our joy.
You’re not asking for too much.
We’ve been there too — and we’ve created Liberated Together as a place you.
Your Community is waiting for you.
You Belong Here If You...
Long for a space where you don’t have to explain yourself — where you can just be.
Are committed to justice but unsure how to keep going without burning out.
Crave a spiritual path that feels like home — one that honors your story.
Want rest, joy, and solidarity that are real, rooted, and sacred.

What We Do
Asian American/ Pasifika Cohort
Grown Ass Woman Cohort
6 WEEK COHORTS AND SEMINARS
SPIRITUAL DIRECTION SCHOOL
LIBERATED HEALING COLLECTIVE
IN PERSON RETREATS
Our Story
Liberated Together was sparked by a vision: that Women of Color deserve more than survival — we deserve joy, rest, liberation, and belonging.
As I (Erna) moved through church, nonprofit, and justice spaces, I saw WOC giving everything they had. We were holding so much — for our communities, institutions, and families — while burning out in spaces that demanded our labor but never truly saw us. In Christian settings, harmful theology often demanded our silence and sacrifice.
I knew we needed something different.
Founder Erna Kim Hackett
In March 2020, I gathered our first cohort — WOC leaders over 30 — to exhale, connect, and imagine liberating, sustainable ways to live and lead. That retreat happened the weekend before COVID lockdowns began. Everything changed, but the longing for that kind of space only deepened.
By May, the world was on fire. I left my role as Executive Pastor the same week George Floyd was murdered. I posted on Facebook asking if any Asian American women wanted to explore racial justice as our full selves while addressing anti-Blackness in our communities. Over 100 women responded. That post was the spark that turned Liberated Together into a full-time calling.
The OG Liberated Together Cohort
March 2020- we had no idea what was coming!
Since then, we’ve hosted cohorts for Asian American folks, been led by the Badass Indigenous Grandmas, Night Vision Cohort for Black women, Latina leaders in Luchadoras, 20-something change makers in Sparkle Squad, and even Asian American men interrogating patriarchy. In 2023, we returned to the yearlong cohort model so that we could dive deeper into community and liberative practices.
Around the same time, I kept hearing from WOC in my coaching work who were training to become spiritual directors. They were being trauatized in white-centered programs and then retraining themselves so that they could serve their own communities.
I knew that we could create something better — liberating, life-giving, and rooted in our identities. In 2023, I gathered an incredible team of Spiritual Directors and we launched Liberated Together Spiritual Direction School — a place where healing and transformation go hand in hand.
We’re creating what we’ve always needed - and continuing to imagine new ways of being Liberated Together.
Some of the students from our first class of Spiritual Directors