D'ete Blackshire is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 3 alum, facilitator, and artist with a calling to create healing spaces that offer opportunities for transmuting struggle into seeds of hope.
Swetha Bellam is currently an undergraduate student at UC Davis, studying Global Disease Biology. Before starting at UC Davis, she was a full time caregiver for people with Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. Currently, along with being a student, she is a researcher, poet, ceramicist, and dreamer.