Meet the Reverb fellows
Resonance Network is a space for worldbuilding — the act of imagining and bringing into being a liberatory future for ourselves and future generations. And Reverb is a space for the stories that emerge along the way.
When we dreamed up the Reverb Fellowship, we put forward an invitation for folks who believe a world beyond violence is possible, who are committed to liberatory practice, and whose worldbuilding takes shape in prose, poetry, visual art, music, and storytelling. And we found them.
Drawn from a wide range of artistic fields, our fellows span geographies, backgrounds, life experiences, and artistic forms— individually and together, they tell a rich and varied story of worldbuilding and possibility. In the coming months, we look forward to sharing their art here on Reverb. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce you them…
Lisbeth White
Lisbeth White (she/they) is a lover of the earth, wanderer of lands, poet, developmental editor, elemental energy healer, listener, and ancestor celebrant. As a writer, she has received awards, fellowships, and residencies from VONA, Callaloo, Tin House, Split This Rock, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, The Dickinson House, and Blue Mountain Center. As a healer and ritualist, she has been a facilitator of community-based workshops utilizing arts and earth-based practices to connect artists, writers, and land stewards within social and healing justice organizations for mutual inspiration and support. She is certain our collective liberation is intricately tied to ancestral earth wisdom and firmly believes each of us has boundless capacity within to be our own wisest healers.
Amber Butts
Amber Butts (she/her) is a storyteller, cultural strategist and grief worker whose practices are informed by cross-species reparative relationships between the living Earth and all of its beings. Her work asks big and small questions about how we actualize spaces that center tenderness, nuance, and play, while living in a world that is sustained by its reliance on our terror. Amber is a steward, practicer and beginner who firmly believes in the bond of living things everywhere. On paper, she is a writer and editor who organizes to confront power. Amber locates herself through ancestral memory, conjuring, and a commitment to collective liberation. She is currently at work on an intergenerational speculative fiction novel.
Sophie Garcia
Sophie Garcia (they/them) has spent every day making room for magic. As an indigenous (Nahua and Yaqui) person living on stolen land, their observations of ancient spiritual practices and advocacy for language justice allows them to reconnect with what was robbed from their people as well as bridge a gap forward into the future. Their brand Astrology Chisme seeks to honor the legacy of safety networks and ancestral knowledge-ways inherent to oral storytelling. By offering perspective shifts in their practice, whether it’s writing, film, photography, or astrology readings, they reflect truth and beauty back to collaborators and another language for hope-building.
Emanuel H. Brown
Emanuel H. Brown (he/him) is a Black Caribbean Trans Masculine Non-Binary person living at the intersections of race, gender and sexuality. Emanuel has a Master’s of Social Work, trained in multiple schools of embodiment practice and uses HEARTS Justice to conjure freedom. Emanuel’s work challenges people to integrate a pro-Black and Trans*-affirming stance within wellness, creative and spiritual spaces. He is the author of Radical Relationships Devotional Series featured on Our Bible App, artistic director for Nu Mas(k)ulinities and host of BLKTrans*+Whole, a live streaming series focused on healing, evolution, and making the political personal. Emanuel has been honored as a Senior Fellow for Pop Culture Collaborative, Southern Healing Star Award, and is currently the Executive Director of Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom.
