Community Care Facilitator, Patient Care Advocate & Death Doula

Christa Lei (they/she) grew up on native Hawaiian land as the youngest child of Filipine immigrants. They studied Community Psychology & English and graduated with honours. Their professional experiences revolve around healthcare: patient advocacy, casework/care facilitation, and clinical research. Their intersectional identities as a fat, neurodivergent, disabled, queer, polyamorous, and third-culture person inform their personal and professional work. their dedication to providing safer spaces for people like them led them to the formation of NYC-based queer futurisms collective, of which they are a founding member. A multi-modal and experienced creative, Christa creates and facilitates spaces for interdisciplinary praxis via community care. Along with their lived experiences as a crip queer person, they have additional professional training in Embodied Social Justice and Death Doula work (certified by Going with Grace.) In their spare time, they dance, sing, write, travel around the world, point out all the puppies on the street, and create shared futures with their chosen family of their loving spouse, partner and two dogs in NYC.