Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano is a proud father of three children, an emcee, circle keeper, artist, cultural organizer, educator, curandero and aspiring elder. He is a queer Boricua raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the radical, award-winning Hip Hop group, Foundation Movement, with whom he has been blessed to facilitate workshops and perform around the globe. This has included Tanzania (where they performed at Black August), Kenya, Cuba (where they were honored to meet Assata Shakur), Palestine (where they performed at refugee camps), South Africa, and Japan (where they participated in a 72 day peace walk from Hiroshima to Tokyo). All of these experiences have deeply transformed and continue to transform Eroc and his work.

lawrence barriner ii (he/him) is Black, queer, mystic/spiritual, and always experimenting. He is the son of a pastor and a teacher, was raised in the US South, and has lived on occupied Pawtucket and Massachusett lands since 2007(ish). He is working for a world that includes liberation for and right relationship between all beings, past, present, and future. His paid work includes facilitation, coaching, training, and consulting for individuals and organizations focused on social, environmental, and land justice. He is a Liberatory Consultant with the Leadership Learning Community, a transformative futures coach with the Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation coaching school, and a Rockwood Leadership Institute. His men’s work can be most easily seen in his work to develop the theory and practice of uncling, in his work to sustain the Greater Boston-Area Men’s Network, and his online course that helps men imagine and practice post-patriarchal futures. He shares writing via his newsletter (lqb2weekly) and his blog (lqb2writes). He also is a lover of terrible puns (lqb2puns) and hopes to be remembered for his hugs.

Jonathan Barry (he/they) is a community organizer, transformative justice practitioner, parent, and therapist. He's a part of two men's groups in Boston that meet bi-weekly - one has been meeting for 15 years and the other for 10 years. Members in these groups offer support to each other to reflect and grow into healthier and more authentic expressions of ourselves. Whether we identify as cis men, trans men or non-binary, the core practices of the groups are unlearning how we embody patriarchy, racism and other harmful systems while simultaneously relating to each other in ways that are more grounded in love and care. Sometimes over the years, this has involved being part of community accountability processes for group members or other men that caused harm in relationships with others.

Jon is a firm believer in the power of men's groups to help create more effective and life-affirming possibilities for the way our society responds to sexual violence. Part of his contribution to prison and police abolition is nurturing the growth of men's group networks for unlearning patriarchy that can also provide accountability support for people who may have caused harm. Jon currently works professionally providing voluntary support to people who have caused sexual harm and are interested in taking accountability.

Georgios "Geo" Costomiris is a community engagement manager at the Boston Ujima Project and an organizer for the Black Men's Collective of Boston. Born in Boston to immigrant parents from Greece & South Africa, Geo was raised in the neighborhood of Dorchester where he continues to live to this day. Prompted to serve the community by local & global issues that have persisted since childhood, Geo completed schooling at both Bunker Hill Community College & Boston University ending in a degree of social science for Youth Justice & Advocacy. After serving the community full time as a program coordinator for young people and families for 2 years, Geo took on more responsibility in the current position at the Boston Ujima Project, where cooperative economics meets arts & cultural organizing. In his additional time, Geo co-organizes masculinity support groups in the Roxbury and neighboring areas with the Black Men's Collective of Boston, a group committed to spaces of healing, action & theory online and in the streets.

Sterling Ellison (they/them) is an anti-oppression and conflict facilitator, writer, liberatory coach, and transformative justice practitioner/abolitionist, with 10+ years of experience focusing on interpersonal violence/harm and community accountability skill-building. For the past four years, Sterling has worked at YW Boston as the Executive Projects Senior Manager and is a former professional track & field athlete, sponsored by adidas, from 2015-2021. They hold a bachelor’s degree in Communication, Political Science & Africana Studies from Villanova University and an MA in Migration Policy from the University of Birmingham (UK) as the 2014-2015 US-UK Fulbright Scholar. Sterling is a Black, queer, and trans non-binary being who adores cooking, ice cream, tea lattes, and finds deep meaning in creating space for the unsaid and unseen. They live with their partner and two cats in Philadelphia, PA, on unceded Lenape land.

Alfonso Henderson, LICSW (he/him) is a vibrant forward thinking clinician with a wealth of experience in community based mental health. Currently based in the Greater Boston area, he earned his Master of Social Work Degree from Boston College School of Social Work. He specializes in providing comprehensive mental health services, including individual and family therapy, behavioral health consultations, counseling, and coaching. He employs a collaborative and person-centered approach, drawing on a variety of therapeutic modalities to support his clients and meet them where they're at. His primary goal is to empower clients to develop the skills, insight, and strategies needed to navigate life's challenges, fostering resilience, and self-reliance.

Alfonso also manages and coordinates projects within Bmen Foundation in the role of Project Coordinator. In this role, Alfonso takes initiative in building partnerships with other mens organizations in the Boston area and rebuilding out the in person support space for Black men to connect, find mental/emotional support, and develop brotherhood within and amongst one another.

Additionally, he is the proud Founder and Owner of Henderson Horizons, LLC, a behavioral health consulting agency providing community based support to youth and young adults in the Greater Boston area. Henderson Horizons mission is to support individuals in finding hope, restoration, and purpose through emotional vulnerability. He envisions a world where individuals can lead balanced and fulfilling lives grounded in self awareness, self compassion, and inner strength.

Justin Jiménez is a writer, software engineer, organizer, and musician born and raised in Boston. He has worked at various education and community organizations in the Boston area and Havana, Cuba, and is passionate about building dynamic networks of solidarity that help us dream and build together. When he is not working, he loves DJing, making music, nerding out over history and baseball, and rollerskating.

Roman Johnson, PhDis a writer and scientist from Memphis, TN. He is a Master of Fine Arts scholar in poetry at Brown University. He has a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University and obtained a B.A. in Political Science from Morehouse College. He is the co-founder of the New England Hoodoo Society. He is the current Radical Reversal Poet in Residence at the Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize from Backbone Press, a past winner of the Clark Atlanta University Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Brown University, the National Institutes of Health, Breadloaf, Tin House, the Writers’ Studio, Martha Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Obsidian Foundation United Kingdom, the City of Boston, Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New England Poetry Club, the Palm Beach Literary Festival, the Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat at Rutgers University, and the Watering Hole. His work has received both Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and concerns itself with grief, longing, masculinity, violence, and connection. His work can be found in Obsidian. African Voices Magazine, and elsewhere. He can be found online at @SonoftheDelta on Twitter and thefreedomdoctor on Instagram

Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. is a Consultant, Educator, Facilitator and Program Developer on issues of Anti-Racism, Anti-Patriarchy, Men's Work, Consent and Culture. He has worked with religious organizations, cultural groups and regional organizations and has taught in higher education for 16 years engaging issues of Race, Gender, Environmental issues, Media and Culture. Ukumbwa has been a member and supportive of numerous local ,national and international organizations and movements advocating for Pan-Africanism, Anti-Racism, Relationship, Sexual and Intimacy safety and education and Men's Development. Ukumbwa has presented across New England, US America, California, Toronto and Barbados. He has worked as Social Media Director for Voice Male Magazine and an organizer for the Greater Boston Men's Network and is currently the moderator for the Men's Work Initiative. Ukumbwa is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso. He does work as an educator of Dagara and African culture, numerology, readings, ritual work and spiritual counseling.

Arthur Thomas is a brotha from Roxbury who grew up in Mission Hill. Growing up he was a student of Boston Public Schools at the Maurice J. Tobin School. After 8th grade he then went to English High school for high school. During high school he was able to become a youth organizer for a few non profit social justice youth programs during the school year. Working for Sociedad Latina and Beantown Society, he attended rallies and protest, conducted and was present to workshops where he and his peers learn about injustices in society they could identify with. During the summers he would work as a camp counselor for Phillips Brooks House at the Mission Hill summer program. A program Arthur attended since age 9 that became an opportunity to get his hands dirty with childcare. He learned how to bring love, patience and positive reinforcement to the kids of his community. Today Arthur now works for Boston Public Schools as paraprofessional at the Orchard Gardens School. He takes pride in showing love and support to kids who can relate to his experiences with institutions, racism, and poverty as well as the hardships those experiences can present.

James is a social worker, visual artist and fundraising strategist originally from Philadelphia. He moved to Boston to serve on the City Year Boston 2012-2013 corps and never left because he found community in Jamaica Plain and doing feminist mens work. James cares deeply about people and the planet and is inspired by the work of the Justice Funders, Bayard Rustin and his Sierra Leonean aunties who taught him all about love. Prior to Ujima, James worked at Health Leads for 3 years primarily focused on managing a portfolio of institutional & individual donor relationships against cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities. James is honored to support the economic world-building that the Boston Ujima Project is envisioning and continue to build towards a world where all humans are in right relationship with change and each other.

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