Our Practitioners
LeAnn D Jenkins
SHE/HER
ABOUT
As a child of the Southern black church in the United States, I ground myself in the embodied focus on moving in the Spirit that comes from my lineage. I connect to the Spirit most through singing, dancing, nature, and mystery. I am committed to participating in our collective liberation by creating spaces of exploration, healing, and collaboration.
approach
I engage in spiritual direction as personal and collective, formal and informal, mystic-positive, and oriented toward liberation. As a mystic with a dynamic and constantly explorative spirituality, my practice involves moving with, sensing, and listening for where the Spirit is active and responding authentically with our whole selves. I value sifting, integrating, and expanding, the ways in which our upbringings have packaged our understanding of Spirit, ourselves, and our sense of what is and can be real.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Though significant parts of my development as a spiritual director came from informal mentors, I hold a Master’s in Spiritual Direction from Loyola University where I centered my studies on the use of spiritual practice in communities actively working toward equity and liberation. Some of my other areas of study and experience are: paying attention to the body, authentic communication, decolonizing/ re-imaging faith, embracing paradox and wildness, and integration of divergent spiritual experience.
what brings her joy
Most things that are living bring me joy if I pay attention long enough. I feel joy most easily when I catch a “flow” while singing, dancing, or creating, when I watch squirrels and birds, when I support artists that I love and find new artists to love, when I touch soil and plants, when I have meaningful time with friends, and when I eat and sleep well.
Cindy S. Lee
SHE/HER
ABOUT
I am a Taiwanese-American spiritual director and aspiring mystic. My spirituality honors the traditions of my family which includes the Christian tradition in a Taiwanese immigrant church as well as Taiwanese ancestral, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions. Daoists believe that the divine is unnameable and simply call her the Dao, the way. Therefore my spirituality is a way of life that embraces divine mystery and honors the sacredness in all beings and in all nature.
approach
I experience spiritual direction as a sacred communal practice in which I have the honor of entering into the soul space of another human being. Together we compassionately and slowly nurture a deeper attunement to our sacred self, to divine presence, and to the longings of our communities. I meet with BIPOC and/or Queer directees. As asexual, aromantic, and genderless my body was created to be an open and expansive space for others. I often use guided meditations and imagination practices that help to open up our supernatural and mystical awareness.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
I completed a PhD in Practical Theology in the area of Spirituality from Claremont School of Theology and was trained in spiritual direction through Stillpoint in Southern California. As an adjunct professor I teach and write in the areas of spiritual direction, mysticism, and BIPOC-centered spirituality. I am the author of Our Unforming: De-westernizing Spiritual Formation (Fortress Press, 2022).
what brings her joy
I love wandering around cities. I get a thrill out of finding street art or exploring a sacred space. A good day is sitting in a coffee shop and just allowing my mind and spirit to imagine.
Rose J. Percy
SHE/HER
ABOUT
I am a Haitian-American contemplative theopoet, spiritual care specialist, digital creator, and podcaster. I love helping people liberate their faith through vocational discernment informed by embodied rest and communal care.
approach
My practice is informed by my commitment to softness. Through attentive listening and questions, we can explore together what it looks like to practice and affirm the gentle landing you deserve. I am open to working with individuals for monthly sessions and shaping resources for group direction. I am passionate about working with activists, organizers, cultural workers, creatives, spiritual leaders, and caregivers seeking spiritual care that is geared toward individual and communal liberation.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Rose is currently pursuing a Master of Sacred Theology in Spiritual Formation at Boston University School of Theology, where she received her M.Div. As an educator, Rose has taught undergraduate classes on Christian faith and racial justice, creating curriculums shaped by Black stories, poetry, liturgy, and music. Her scholarly work engages theopoetics, mysticism, identity, vocational discernment, trauma, and theology.
what brings her joy
I love picking up my guitar and playing cover songs, arranging flowers, and writing in calligraphy.
Puanani Poti-Calvillo
SHE/HER
ABOUT
A proud Samoan Filipina from southern California, my story is woven together by a collective of lived experiences, relationships, spirituality, roles, ancestral wisdom & education. I feel the most connected to the Divine & to my body when in movement, whether it be dancing in the kitchen with my children, swimming in the ocean, or swinging kettlebells.
approach
I approach spiritual direction as a companion, holding space for BIPOC seekers to listen contemplatively and mutually to the movement of the sacred in & around their story. I integrate embodiment, thoughtful reflections, encouragement, imagination, rituals, remembering, and breath work to support meaning-making and exploration.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
I am a graduate of Still Harbor Spiritual Direction Practicum Program, received a masters in Teaching, and currently enrolled in a program to be certified as a personal trainer. With the hope of expanding my practice to provide trauma-informed, spiritually centered exercise training through weight lifting, primal flow & accompaniment for seekers exploring their ancestral movements. Formerly, I worked as an elementary school teacher and co-led El Puente Community Church with my partner in Santa Ana, CA. As a faith leader, my roles included but was not limited to (IYKYK) mentoring Santaneras, administration, accompanying families, teaching youth & facilitating women’s support groups.
what brings her joy
I chase sun rays and waterways. I enjoy loud knee-slapping belly laughs while talking stories with my family & friends over good food. Most days you can catch me dancing in my kitchen to Selena or chillin to Reggae music. I adore watching my children explore new places, staying present when I’m told “I love you mommy”, & taking spontaneous dates downtown on the train with my husband.
Chris Yi Suh
SHE/they
ABOUT
I am a queer diasporic Korean artist, writer, and spiritual care practitioner currently living in Cleveland, Ohio, on Erie territories.
approach
As an artist-mystic, I believe in the power of creativity and storytelling as a path to cultivating empathy, speaking truth to power, and building spiritual and social change. As a spiritual director and retreat facilitator, I hold sacred space primarily for women of color, femmes, and non-binary folks through one-on-one spiritual accompaniment, contemplative listening, healing circles, and somatic praxes. My hope for the individuals and communities I work with is to support folks’ ancestral connection, divine interiority/agency, and healing journey in ways that aid collective liberation.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
I was raised in the Korean immigrant church and offer a decolonial, inter/intrareligious approach to spiritual care. I hold a master’s in theology, certifications in movement chaplaincy, soul care/spiritual formation, and spiritual direction. I serve as a board member with Still Harbor, am a community facilitator with Evolving Faith, a member of the Korean American Artist Collective (KAAC), and the author of Forty Days on Being a Four.
what brings them joy
I experience deep joy when I’m sharing nourishing food and meaningful conversations with close friends and family. I also find joy in making my two kiddos laugh, finding a good cup of coffee, exploring the outdoors (especially being near water) with my partner, and in anything creative or artistically inspiring. Jamming to early 2000’s R&B is also joy and medicine for my soul<3
Christina Quintanilla
SHE/HER
ABOUT
I am an Indigenous Xicana with ancestors on both sides of the US-Mexico border. After nearly a decade of justice ministry, I left my role to embark on a journey of decolonizing my spirituality, reclaiming my Indigenous roots, and calling my spirit back. I found deep intergenerational medicine in communing with ancestral land (Oklahoma and Mexico), experiencing Creator Jesus in ceremony, and awakening to the love of matriarchs and antepasados (ancestors). Through ancestral paradigms, we open to the expansive love of Creator and the limitless possibilities of liberation!
approach
Drawing from my Indigenous Xicana roots and background in trauma-informed spiritual care, together we will: experience Creator through decolonial spiritual practices, build relationship with madre tierra (mother earth), connect with your great cloud of ancestors (Hebrews 12), reclaim the womb wisdom of matriarchs, and awaken to the Spirit of God at work in the whole of creation. It would be my joy to accompany you on the spiritual journey through spiritual care groups, one-on-one sessions, and retreat facilitation.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
I hold a Bachelor of Sociology from UCLA and a Master of Divinity from NAIITS (North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies): An Indigenous Learning Community. My Masters of Divinity includes specialization in: Trauma-informed spiritual care, Indigenous spirituality and wellness, Asset-based Theology, and Indigenous understandings of scripture. I had the honor of learning from some of the most recognized Indigenous scholars, practitioners, pastors, and elders.
what brings her joy
Spontaneous travel, scenic hikes, the sound of moving water, matcha everything, delicious eats and deep conversation, harmonizing to my favorite songs, hugging trees, belly laughs, breathtaking sunsets, and bailando (salsa, bachata, reggeton, etc).