Co-Founding Team

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Beck Klassen

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Beck Klassen (they/them) is a listener, a learner, a carer, and a writer. As a queer and trans/genderqueer/gender non-conforming/non-binary anarchist, they are regularly engaged in deconstructing oppressive social norms, both theoretically and in practice. Beck is a fierce proponent of prefigurative politics and spends their time infusing their values into how they move through the world. 

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Jenny Hegland

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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.

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Ravenna Raven

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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.

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Yvette Perry

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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.