Ana Guadalupe Reyes, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, CHST (elle|le|they|them) is a Core Faculty member at Antioch University. Dr. Reyes has a bachelor's degree in Forensic Psychology with a concentration in addictions counseling from Tiffin University, a master's in Counseling from Marymount University, and a Ph.D. in Counseling from the University of North Texas. They are a National Certified Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas, and Certified Humanistic Sandtray Therapist. Dr. Reyes is also a Usui Reiki Master/Teacher who practices various forms of energy healing.
With over 13 years of experience working with marginalized and underserved communities including communities of color; immigrants; refugees; survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer clients in multiple settings, Dr. Reyes integrates somatic, liberatory, and holistic approaches into their work as a scholar, educator, advocate, and counselor. In these roles, they practice anti-oppressive and emancipatory approaches to counseling and research. Inspired by these approaches, Dr. Reyes engages in ongoing reflexivity, dialogue, and action with other researchers and clinicians to promote liberatory research approaches in counseling. They have extensive training in various qualitative research methods, including but not limited to phenomenology, photovoice, and heuristic inquiry.

Grace Schroeder (she/her) is a third-year Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at California State University, Fullerton with the intention of working with queer individuals from all walks of life. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach. While there, she served as a Supplemental Instruction Leader for biopsychology and a Mentor for the psychology Leader cohort.
As someone who has been involved in research for several years, Grace is passionate about making the research process more accessible to everyone - particularly for communities historically subjected to oppression and extraction at the hands of academia. With experience in both traditional research as well as critical liberatory and anti-oppressive methodologies, Grace has seen how research can be both a force for exploitation and for healing. Because of this, she finds it important to practice and normalize liberatory research.
As a queer womxn herself, she hopes to contribute to the healing of the queer community, especially QTPoC, by uplifting voices through research and counseling. Additionally, she believes it is important that, as a white womxn, she does everything she can to be actively anti-racist using her white and educational privileges to advocate for and uplift (queer) voices of color. Grace is a proud Californian and 5th generation greater Los Angeles resident. In her free time, Grace loves to spend time with family, travel, play video games with friends, and play with her cat, Wasabi!

Eric Wilkes (He/Him) is a second-year Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at California State University, Fullerton. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Sociology from Utah State University, where he conducted research on Indigenous perspectives on climate change and worked with immigrant and refugee communities to identify critical needs. While at Utah State, he also helped develop open educational resources to assist inmates in receiving free education while imprisoned.
Having grown up as a queer youth in a predominantly religious and economically disadvantaged environment, Eric's personal experiences have shaped his dedication to being anti-oppressive and liberation-focused in his research and personal life. As a first-generation high school and college graduate, Eric believes it is important to use his academic privilege, along with his privileges as a white man, to advocate for and practice culturally affirming, anti-oppressive counseling and research practices to uplift communities facing marginalization and systemic barriers.
In his free time, Eric enjoys sketching, watching movies, learning, and exploring new ways to build connections with the queer community since moving to the greater Los Angeles area.

Kev (they/them) is a Master’s student attending California State University Fullerton’s Clinical Mental Health program and graduating in December 2024. They completed their trainee hours at the LGBTQ Center of Orange County and are an active member of the Liberatory Research Collective (LRC). They received their Bachelor of Science in Psychology at California Lutheran University while earning an emphasis in Clinical and Behavioral Assessment and a Minor in Biology.
Kev’s life has been full of diverse experiences, such as Shakespeare summer stock theatre, neuroscientific research, Disneyland costuming, traveling abroad, Meisner acting training, cosplay, and transformative personal healing via Dialectical Behavior Therapy and fiction-guided self-exploration. Now, thanks to their work through LRC, Kev is immersing themself in anti-racist liberatory research, exploring what it means to integrate social justice into their life and passions, while working alongside a group of peers equally dedicated to doing similar work. Kev is still discovering what they want their professional future to look like as a white, queer, and disabled nerd in this field, and for now, they are exactly where they want to be: learning and growing with community.