Tasjha Dixon Tasjha is a luminous force, a Taurus whose roots stretch deep into the fertile soil of life. A Buddhist practitioner, intuitive healer, yoga therapeutics teacher, journal writing facilitator, and meditation teacher, she dances between realms, infusing the ordinary with the extraordinary. A single mother and disabled Army veteran, Tasjha turns hardship into power, drawing strength from every moment of struggle, and weaving it into a tapestry of transformation.

Soon to be a yoga studio owner in her hometown of Kansas City, Tasjha creates sacred spaces where healing, connection, and growth flourish. With a soul that hums in harmony with the earth’s rhythms, she shapes environments where words pulse with energy, where writing becomes both a mirror and a key, unlocking the heart’s deepest truths. Her work as a spoken word artist is a celebration of the sacred in the everyday, an offering to the collective consciousness, and an extension of her 20 years of social activism in her local community where a disproportionate number of poor and low-income families reside.

Set to graduate from Naropa University in August 2025, Tasjha merges contemplative practice with creative expression, offering a space for the quiet revolution of self-discovery. As a board member of the Transformative Language Arts Network (TLAN), she nurtures her vision where language becomes a catalyst for connection, empowerment, and change—lifting voices, uplifting hearts, and transforming the world with every spoken syllable.

Kiesa Kay (picture and bio to come)

Andrea Leeb (picture and bio to come)

Kelly Hams Pearson is a blogger, poet, trainer, consultant, and creative coach. She views life as a continuous journey of placing faith in action.  One of those many creatives with a required 9 to 5, she serves as Conciliation Specialist-Peacekeeper with the United States Department of Justice-Community Relations Service. She helps provide facilitation, mediation, training, and consultation services that improve communities' abilities to problem solve and build capacity to prevent and respond to conflict, tension, and hate crimes based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Kelly continues to be a fledging seminary student at the Chicago Theological Seminary, a reformed helicopter mom, an ardent fan of meditative stretch yoga, and an involved member of her community. Parkville, Missouri.

Greg Smith- BA English, Secondary Education Teaching Certification

As someone whose life has been deeply touched by numerous encounters with the Transformative Language Arts, he is honored to help further the mission of the TLA Network, having participated in Power of Words conferences, Brave Voice retreats, and writing classes offered by Turning Point. While he has always cherished and supported those whose creativity in various mediums such as the spoken, written, or sung word, and how they greatly enrich all our lives; he has recently begun to do so himself. First, by completing a memoir as part of his legacy to his family, and now, beginning to put together a memoir on his wife Diane's and their family's experience of their encounter with Diane's vascular dementia. Diane's initial involvement with all these TLA activities has opened the door for his participation here as well, for which he will remain forever grateful!

Sharon Sperry (photo and bio to come)