Chandra Alexandre Editor

Chandra Alexandre, PhD, is a Tantric Bhairavi who has served as a spiritual leader for the past 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area through SHARANYA (www.sharanya.org), a federally-recognized goddess temple she founded after receiving direction from her teacher in India to, "Go and spread Mother Worship!" Dedicated to Her mysteries as pathways to personal transformation and social justice, Chandra works both in community and in the nonprofit sector for change. She received diksha (initiation) into Tantra in India, her PhD in Asian & Comparative Studies from CIIS (with an MA in Women's Spirituality), and her DMin in Creation Spirituality. She also holds an MBA in sustainable management and is a certified fundraising professional specializing in internationally-focused causes and grassroots women-led change.

Nane Jordan, PhD, is a birthkeeper, artist-scholar, community worker and mother of two daughters. Nane has been active in mother-centred birth for over 30 years, and is devoted to women's spirituality, the divine feminine/female, Mother Earth, and goddess scholarship.She completed her MA in Women's Spirituality (New College of California), a PhD inEducation (UBC), and was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Paris 8, France. Nané currently works in Indigenous family services, and was a lecturer in art education at UBC. She pursues narrative, arts-based, life writing research, collaborative artistic practices, and publishes widely, including the anthology, Placenta Wit: Mother Stories, Rituals, and Research (Demeter Press, 2017).