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Lumos Transforms

Speaking & Community Engagement

Skillful strategists and community engagement specialists to partner with you to build resilience and facilitate positive change in your community.

Public Speaking &
Subject Matter Expertise

Community Collaboration

Public Speaking & Subject Matter Expertise

  • Experienced keynote speakers, featured presenters, and panelists to enliven your professional conference or community event.
  • Engaging, insightful voices for your press, film, TV, radio, or web productions.
  • Knowledgeable experts for content consultation on your project or initiative.

Our Speakers

Mikaela Johnson Vaal

Gia Hasan

Dawn Utsumi

Nkem Ndefo

Nkem Ndefo is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She is a skilled practitioner, dynamic speaker, and valued strategist. She is known for her unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful healing spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection.

Desiree F. Magsombol

Desiree F. Magsombol JD, (she/her) is a Certified Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit, a TRE (Tension/Trauma Release Exercise) Provider, and a Field-Initiated Training and Technical Assistance Provider for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act(PREA) Resource Center with Impact Justice. Working with, living in, and being a part of communities with high levels of stress and trauma and limited access to mainstream tools, Desiree is committed making multi-modality tools of resilience accessible to all individuals, organizations, and communities.

Devika Shankar

For speaking inquiries, please contact Lumos’ Director of Communications, Carissa Ferro at carissa@lumostransforms.com or 323-254-7775.

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Community Collaboration

Skillful strategists and community engagement specialists to partner with you to build resilience and facilitate positive change in your community.

What’s possible…

  • Conflict mediation
  • Council circles
  • Critical incident support for processing, holding space
  • Developing peer-support frameworks and programs
  • Resource for campaigns or organizing push
  • Support for peer mentors
  • Trauma-informed training for community leaders
  • Wellness classes, workshops, speakers, booths, tabling for community events

Let’s collaborate

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