Wednesday Night Edition

On May 7, The Global Peace Tribe honored our LGBTQIA+ Friends and Community on The Awakening World broadcast. Our Beloved Rev. Becky Suzik started us off with a beautiful prayer……..

Omashar provided 3 songs throughout the night.

Our Presenters included:

Erica Kay-Webster is a historical and prominent LGBTQ rights activist and advocate. She is the CEO and president of A Most Perfect Love Foundation and a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion. Erica has dedicated her life to human rights advocacy, becoming a leading voice for transgender rights. She has been the featured speaker at various local and national LGBTQ community events. Erica is also an ordained non-sectarian minister, the International Media Spokesperson for the LGBTQ Compassion Games, and a signer on the UN Charter for Compassion. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to the LGBTQ community and human rights advocacy. Learn more at www.amostperfectlove.org

Rev. Andrée Cornelia Mol (she/they) is an ordained Unitarian Universalist (UU) minister serving a congregation in Northern New Jersey. LGBTQ+ advocacy and support remain a central part of her ministry, helping to connect youth and adults in her area to both community and resources. Among her various leadership and volunteer roles, Andrée remains an active member of TRUUsT (an organization of UU trans religious professionals), which views the work for liberation as intimately tied to all efforts to dismantle oppression. Through Andrée’s varied experiences in filmmaking, leadership development, and ministry, she is committed to collectively exploring the role of transformative stories and dialogue in our spiritual lives. She is currently writing a biography of Stonewall Veteran and trans activist Sylvia Rivera. She lives with her wife near a lot of trees, birds and hiking trails, and is the proud parent of two children and two cats.

Christian de la Huerta is a renowned spiritual teacher, transformation coach, and award-winning author with over 30 years of experience. His book, Awakening the Soul of Power, was praised by music icon Gloria Estefan as “a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life’s difficult questions” and has earned multiple prestigious awards including the Nautilus Book Award, the Global Book Award, and the Nonfiction Book Award. A TEDx speaker and leader in the breathwork community, Christian empowers individuals to break through emotional barriers, step into their power, and create relationships rooted in authenticity and purpose. His new book, Conscious Love: Transforming Our Relationship to Relationships, offers a groundbreaking approach to love and connection and is being published in June.

Becky Suzik spent 20+ years in corporate communications and ran her own PR agency for a decade before erupting out of her head and into her heart to re-imagine a new story for media and communications. Her sacred work is designing and supporting mixed-media developing programs and experiences focused on kindness, creativity, and joy. She holds talking circles, playshops and retreats that intertwine personal reflection and narratives with expressive arts towards greater personal awareness, joy and safe expressions of grief. www.joyfuel.org

We also heard from Piper Dellums & Heather Elizabeth