team

Her Rising community partners

Her Rising Wisdom Council

Team

Eleni Flow is a yoga teacher, holistic health coach, shamanic dance facilitator, and a founding member of Her Rising. Her major role in Her Rising is community weaving and engagement. She has produced and run several music and art festivals, choreographed and performed multiple dance pieces and interactive prayerformances, and created and produced many community events.

Magalie Bonneau-Marcil is a dancing freedom facilitator, artistic director and spiritual activist. She founded Dancing without Borders in 2011, an initiative focused on producing and facilitating interactive dances and rituals for social transformation. She has co-produced several large-scale human aerial arts and flash mobs in Europe, South Africa, Rio+20, United States and Panama in support of international social and environmental campaigns. Her collaborative work has been featured on the front page of several magazines and major newspapers. Previous to this work, Magalie coached activists and social entrepreneurs and founded in 2004 the PJ Phelan Sailing Foundation, a $5 million dollars fund created to support the rise of Canadian world-class sailors to rise to their potential in a holistic way. Magalie is devoted to catalyzing the collective power of artists, healers and communities across cultures and background as we come together to heal, empower ourselves and embody the future we want to see.

John Quigley | Acclaimed Artist of Collaborative Art for the Common Good

Rae Abilaeh | Co-Director CODEPINK Women for Peace

Paul Hawken | Writer, Founder of Wiser Earth & Social Entrepreneur

Cynthia Winton-Henry |

Founder Interplay

Samantha Sweetwater I

Founder Dancing Freedom

Alka Arora | Dept. Chair Women & Spirituality California Institute of Integral Studies

Ben Flanigan is an award-winning Film Director and Editor. He co-directed Are You Still There?, a short narrative film that won the "Best Overall Film" award at the San Francisco 24-Hour Film Race 2011. In the feature-length documentary world, Ben edited a TV version of Better This World, winner of the "Best Documentary Feature" award at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2011, which broadcast on POV. Other documentaries that he edited have screened or won awards at the Aspen International Shortsfest, the Wild and Scenic Film Festival and the COP-14 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland. Ben has dedicated his career to making empowering, high-quality films and videos that reach a broad audience and inspire profound changes in human consciousness.

Tina Banchero is the choreographer of Her Rising Flash Mob. She has performed with many Bay Area choreographers and most extensively with Krissy Keefer's Dance Brigade and Ramon Ramos Alayo’s Company. Tina has toured with these companies to Egypt, Lebanon, Cuba, Saint Maarten, New York City, as well as through out California and the US. Tina has directed and choreographed for the Dance Mission Theater Youth Program, the Grrrl Brigade, the opening ceremonies for Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the Light in the Grove Benefit for the National AIDS Memorial. She has also choreographed for Trolley Dances SF, the Porazone Music project, Scalpel the Musical, Bay Area Rising Performance Rituals, Malfa Music Videos and Devious Inc. Movies. Tina has taught for the Alvin Ailey Summer Dance Camps in Oakland and New York City and currently teaches at Dance Mission Theater and for the Performing Arts Workshop where she is an artist mentor.