Beck Klassen became The Good Listening Project's first Listener Poet in 2018 when they helped pilot the program at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington D.C. They thrive on connecting with and learning from people in personal and professional environments.

Chanice Withers is an educator, poet, and proud graduate of the Certified Listener Poet program Cohort 7. A natural-born teacher, she shares her gift with the community through her monthly workshop, Poetry in the Park—a space for connection, creativity, and healing.

Elizabeth Pringle is part of the co-founding team of Listener Poets and has produced The Good Listening Podcast. She explores language and the human experience through theatre and film, arts and media education, leadership coaching, and professional development.

Erin “Fitz” FitzGerald is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, and a human who believes deeply in the healing power of generous listening. She is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and was an instructor and director of Healer's Art, which utilizes generous listening as a skill to be with others' suffering and humanize medicine.

Geva Thole is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum, a poet, and Behavior Health Specialist living in Wisconsin.

Gray Davidson Carroll is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum, and a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places.

Jenny Hegland is part of the co-founding team of Listener Poets and serves as Executive Director of The Good Listening Project. She is a creative facilitator, coach, and social entrepreneur whose life’s work centers around community engagement, participatory leadership, and social justice.

Joseph M. Jablonski is a typewriting street poet in addition to being a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 1 alum of The Good Listening Project. As a street poet, he entertains as the “Walking Mall Poet” on the downtown pedestrian mall of Winchester, Virginia and beyond.

Julia McDonald (She/They) is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, and a Maine-based physician, writer, and international humanitarian. McDonald’s writing has appeared in mainstream news media as advocacy for patients and commentary on the intersection of politics and medicine.

LaShaune Johnson is a public health professor, breast cancer survivor/advocate, and culturally responsive evaluator. She is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 2 alum.

Leigh Finnegan-Hosey is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum and spiritual care provider with experience working in both higher education and health care settings. She currently serves as the pediatric and reproductive health chaplain for a large academic medical center.

Ravenna Raven is part of the co-founding team of Listener Poets and serves as Education and Publications Lead. Early childhood experiences with first responders, surgeons, and hospice nurses propelled her toward writing as a practice for healing and making meaningful connections with others.

Sibihan Lawrence is a London-born Performance poet, Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, Theatre maker, Arts Education Specialist, Storyteller. And a dismantler of master-narratives.

Yvette Perry is part of the co-founding team of Listener Poets and serves as Health Equity Programs Lead. She is a lover of music and books, an amateur photographer, a collector of antique typewriters, and one fourth of a Marvel Cinematic Universe household that includes her husband and twin daughters.

Zina Mercil is a lover of people, connection, compassion, words, artistic expression, and life. In her roles she specializes in increasing personal awareness, growth, and performance while decreasing burnout and health consequences. She is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 1 alum.