Her Story Speaks

Gabes Torres is an anti-oppressive researcher, decolonized psychotherapist, artist, speaker, and seer. Gabes was born and raised in the Philippines, and is a descendant of the Aeta Indigenous tribes of the Luzon and Mindanao islands. She comes from an ancestral lineage of nomadic healers, musicians & poets, theologians, educators, and revolutionists. Gabes has been active in the work of antiracism...

Marcie Walker joins me again for another honest chats about racism, faith and current events Marcie is a Christian, African-American writer and creator of the blog and Instagram feed, Black Coffee with White Friends, where she chronicles her experiences as a black woman navigating white-dominant spaces. Marcie is also the creator of  “Mocking Bird History Lessons” where she researches, writes and...

Karen González is seeking to see and love her neighbors as God does. She is a speaker, writer, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child.

Jessica Goudeau’s life was forever changed in 2007 when she volunteered and met a group of Burmese refugees. Since then she has spent more than a decade working with refugees in Austin, TX. As an author and activist, Jessica has a passion to ethically and authentically bring the stories of people who have become vulnerable because of war, persecution, and oppressive systems that keep them from bei...

Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and minister whose work focuses upon healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression. She earned her M.S. and Ph. D. in clinical psychology from the University of Miami and her Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and  is currently an associate professor at Mercer University.  In my conversation today Dr. Chane...

Nikole Lim is a speaker, educator, and consultant on leveraging dignity through the restorative art of storytelling. She is the founder and international director of Freely In Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to equipping survivors and advocates to lead in ending sexual violence through their rewritten stories. With a background in photography and film making, Nikole has the ability to see...

Lettie Shumate is a Black woman, historian, anti-racism educator, and racial justice advocate with a passion for breaking down and sharing true History. In this episode Lettie shares the real story behind the 19th amendment and who actually got the right to vote when it was passed. She also breaks down  the racist history of many of the early white women suffragists and perhaps most importantly we...

Author and speaker Cara Meredith grew up in a colorless world. From childhood, she didn't think issues of race had anything to do with her, and she was ignorant of many of the racial realities (including individual and systemic racism) in America today. A colorblind rhetoric had been stamped across her education, world view, and Christian theology. That all changed Cara met and fell in love with t...

In this episode of the HerStory Speaks podcast, Osheta Moore, Marcie Walker and Cara Meredith join me for an honest conversation about peacemaking, racial reconciliation and friendships between Black and white women. Toward the end of the episode they share what is bringing them joy right now and what they are reading. You don’t want to miss this truth telling episode mixed with hard topics and so...

Patrice Gopo was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and she is the child of Jamaican immigrants. Drawing on her experiences, Patrice enjoys exploring racial identity formation, race relations, and the search for a sense of belonging. Her essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Catapult, Creative Nonfiction, and online in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her essay...

We are revisiting an episode from the fall of 2019. Emmy Kegler is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, a small servant-hearted neighborhood congregation in Northeast Minneapolis focused on feeding the hungry and community outreach. Emmy has a Master’s in Divinity from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minn., and is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.  She was raised in...

Marcie Walker  joins me again for our monthly chat. In this episode we talk about all things U.S. monuments and memorials and the recent controversies to take them down. Marcie gives her wisdom and insight from a biblical, historical and justice perspective. We end our convo with a message of hope and encouragement that even in these times of racial tensions and pandemic, there are still glimmers...

Lettie Shumate is a Black woman, historian, anti-racism educator, and racial justice advocate living near Wilmington, North Carolina. Not only is breaking down history one of Lettie’s passions, but leading anti-racism work, facilitating conversations in anti-racism workshops and programs, and continuing to inform others about the larger issues that must be confronted to dismantle white supremacy c...

Marcie Walker  joins me again for this bonus episode. Marcie is a Christian, African-American writer and creator of the blog and Instagram feed, Black Coffee with White Friends, where she chronicles her experiences as a black woman navigating white-dominant spaces. Marcie is also the creator of  “Mocking Bird History Lessons” where she researches, writes and shares the missing narratives of our co...

Khristi Lauren Adams is a speaker, author, youth advocate and ordained Baptist minister. She is passionate about youth advocacy and committed to work that affirms the wholeness and self-worth of black girls and women. She is the author of Parable of the Brown Girl, released February 2020. The book highlights the cultural and spiritual truths that emerge from the lives of young black girls. In this...

Myisha T is an awesome and sometimes exhausted mom to 3 different-ability children. She is an anti-racism guide, mental health activist, speaker, and entrepreneur who is passionate about women’s mental wellness and empowerment. A passionate advocate for mental wellness, Myisha T believes that when people get real, they can begin to heal. She founded the “Check Your Privilege” (CYP) movement, an on...

D. L. Mayfield is a writer and activist who has spent over a decade working with refugee communities in the United States. She has written for places as varied as Christianity Today, Image journal, and The Washington Post. Her book of essays, Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith was released in 2016. Her second book, The Myth of the American Dream: Reflectio...

Emily Joy Allison is an author, poet, and yoga teacher. In November of 2017, as the #MeToo hashtag was going viral, Emily came forward with her own story of abuse at the hands of her church and launched the #ChurchToo movement overnight. She has been writing and speaking about religious sexualized violence and its theological underpinnings ever since. Her work takes place where faith, sexuality, a...

Ruth Everhart  is an ordained Presbyterian Pastor who has been serving the church for more than twenty-five years. She been writing about sexual abuse and faith since 2012, when she authored her memoir, Ruined, that tells her deeply personal story of being raped at gunpoint at age 20.  We talk about this and her  decade-long journey to build a new faith in the aftermath of that horrific night. Rut...

Rozella Haydée White is the #LoveBigCoach, one who believes that love and Revolutionary Relationships can heal the world and bring us back to ourselves and to each other. She is the owner of RHW Consulting, which provides life and leadership coaching, retreats, inspirational speaking, and writing that accompanies people as they create and live their most meaningful lives. Rozella actively works to...

Kathy Escobar co-pastors The Refuge, a Christian community and mission center in North Denver. Her passion is creating safe and brave spaces for transformation and healing in a variety of contexts. A speaker, spiritual director, group facilitator, and organizational consultant, she is author of several books including her most recent, Practicing: Changing Yourself to Change the World as well as fo...

Kelley Nikondeha is the co-director and chief storyteller for Communities of Hope, a community development enterprise in Burundi, Africa. She is the co-founder of Amahoro Africa, a conversation between theologians and practitioners within the African context.

Kathy Khang is a writer, speaker, activist and yoga teacher. Kathy was a newspaper reporter in Green Bay and Milwaukee, WI before spending more than two decades in vocational ministry where she focused on leadership development and training leaders in diversity and justice. In today’s episode we talk about the importance of learning to use your voice, recognizing your privilege and how to stay eng...

Stephanie Tait is a author, speaker, trauma-survivor and disability advocate with Lyme Disease. In the fourteen years it took her to get a diagnosis, she struggled with miscarriages, medical indifference and sexism, and the birth of her two sons.  Her book, The View from Rock Bottom, is a tale of her struggles with chronic illness along with messages about faith, pain, suffering, joy, and hope.

Sarah Quezada is an author, advocate, and business owner. She has a master's in sociology and nearly two decades of experience working across cultures and leading conversations about justice and faith. Her first book, Love Undocumented: Risking Trust in a Fearful World, chronicled her journey through the immigration system with her husband, Billy, who emigrated from Guatemala City.