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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Couns Psychol. 2020 Mar 26;68(1):1–16. doi: 10.1037/cou0000430

Table 1.

Participant Demographic Information

Name, Age Identities Disclosed Most Salient Forms of Black Liberation Work
Geo Borden, 23 Black Honduran, cisgender woman, androgynous, queer, living in New York, low income, bachelor’s degree, spiritual and non-religious. Did not disclose ability status. Former student activist, artivist, teacher, scholar-activist, engages in social media-based activism
Lauren Chapple, 30 Black and a quarter German, cisgender woman, straight, living in North Dakota, middle class but feels like a “broke grad student,” graduate student, atheist, vision impairment. Student activist, scholar-activist, spacemaker, started #updateyourstereotypes campaign
Michael Conigan, 30 Black, cisgender man, straight, from Illinois, working class, believes in God and is seeking answers on spirituality. Did not disclose education level or ability status. Mentor, neighborhood activist, supports the “village”
Michael Cunningham, 50 Black, cisgender man, gay, from Washington, D.C., working middle class, graduate degree. Did not disclose spirituality or ability status. Scholar-activist, engages in institutional level campus-based activism, mentor
Laina Dawes, 40s Black, cisgender woman, straight, living in Ontario, raised middle class but feels like a “broke graduate student,” graduate student, agnostic. Did not disclose ability status. Scholar-activist, artivist/author, mentor, spacemaker for girls
Erika Dawkins, 29 Black, cisgender woman, straight, from Louisiana, middle-class, graduate degree, Christian and “more spiritual than religious,” full-figured. “Coach,” mentor, spacemaker for Black teenage women
Micah McCreary, 60 Black, cisgender man, straight, from Michigan, upper middle class, graduate degree, Christian, has anxiety and PTSD. Practices institutional level activism as co-pastor of a church and president of a theological seminary, organizer
Aaron Moore, 35 Black, cisgender man, straight, from Illinois, middle class, altered gait, PTSD. Religion/spirituality and level of education was not disclosed. Leader of S.A.F.E. Rockford (saferockford.org), community- and youth-focused activist
Michael Quess? Moore, 35 Black, cisgender man, straight, from New York, lower-class income, graduate degree (described as “two pieces of paper”), spiritual and non-religious, has manic depression, social anxiety, and PTSD. Organizer with Take Em Down Nola (@takeemdownnola or takeemdownnola.org), artivist/poet
Michelle Antoinette Nelson, 35 Black, gender fluid woman, androgynous, lesbian, living in Maryland, middle class, “educated,” spiritual and non-religious. Did not disclose ability status. Founder of Brown and Healthy (@BrownandHealthy on Twitter and Instagram), artivist/poet, spacemaker
Elena Stoodley, 32 Black Haitian, cisgender woman, straight, from Montreal, very low income, spiritual and non-religious. Did not disclose education level or ability status. Organizer, community activist, artivist, spacemaker, engages in physical resistance efforts
Lamin Swann, 38 Black, cisgender man, straight, living in Kentucky, middle to upper middle-class income, some college, agnostic, cerebral palsy, has used wheelchair for 25 years. Practices social media-based activism, organizing, participates in protests, coalition-building