Meet Our Guest Speakers

SYDNEY RAE CHIN

Sydney Rae Chin spoke on our De-coupling in Polyamory, and our Abuse in Polyamory panel. She is a proud queer 3rd gen Chinese American woman, and intuitive sex guide, focused on supporting woman and non-men survivors of sexual and domestic violence. 

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ALICIA BUNYAN-SAMPSON

Alicia  spoke on our Abuse in Polyamory panel. She writes under the alias Polyamorous Black Girl on her identity as a black woman, love, trauma, sexuality and non-monogamy. She is also an independent film maker, podcaster and advocate. 

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EVITA SAWYERS

Evita Sawyers spoke on our De-coupling in Polyamory panel. She is a non-monogamy coach, speaker, and educator, and creator of “Today’s Polyamory Reminder”. She is also the subject of the groundbreaking polyamorous documentary “Poly-Love”. 

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EVE RICKERT

Eve Rickert spoke on our Abuse in Polyamory panel. She is the author of More Than Two and Black Iron. She is also the owner of Thorntree Press, a publishing company focused on polyamorous literature. 

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MARJANI LANE

Marjani Lane is speaking on our White Supremacy in Polyamory event. Marjani Lane is a polyamorous educational content platform/persona created by Ebony Hagans with a focus on supporting the Black community on hard topics in ethical non-monogamy through the lens of the Black community.  Ebony is femme queer with preferred pronouns she/they. Ebony created Marjani Lane to be a figure that Black polyam bodies could relate to that wasn’t just heteronormative. 

ANDY ADAMS

Andy Adams spoke on our De-coupling in Polyamory panel. She is a non-monogamous mother and educator, and the owner of The Growth Arc (a education and community support space for navigating relationships)

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DR JUSTIN CLARDY

Justin is speaking on our White Supremacy in Polyamory event. He is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, and has published work on the intersection of love & race, with a focus on the ethicality of non-monogamous relationship styles and the unjust political consequences for non-monogamists. 

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MICHELLE HY

Michelle Hy is speaking on our White Supremacy in Polyamory event. She is from Portland, Oregon and runs the page Polyamorous While Asian, which seeks normalize non-monogamy, promote intentional relationships, and amplify the voices of other POC, who are significantly underrepresented in non-monogamous communities. She works to educate from an intersectional lens, offers non-monogamy peer support sessions. 

Meet our Facilitators

CLAIRE LOUISE TRAVERS

Claire Louise Travers facilitated a number of panels including, De-coupling in Polyamory and Abuse in Polyamory. She is a pansexual, polyamorous academic, writer and podcaster. 

ALL OF EL

All of El facilitated the White Supremacy in Polyamory event. They are a trans, non-binary brown creative documenting the journeys and identities of himself and others through video & written word.

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