A B O U T

MEET

THE FOUNDER

R E Y A B O R N Practitioner, Educator, Author, Facilitator

“Creating space for breath and practice within a moment of racial charge will bring consciousness to and heal the deepest wounds within ourselves, and stop the perpetuation of racialized harm that happens unconsciously through us.”

Reya holds a Master's Degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine from the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine, along with an undergraduate degree in her trail-blazing field of Sustainable Health. As an author, anti-racist facilitator, health educator, and clinician, Reya integrates individual, community, and planetary healing into a single practice.

With over 20 years of clinical experience, teaching continuing education, and mentoring acupuncture students, Reya brings deep medical grounding to her work. As a health equity educator, anti-bias and trauma-informed facilitator, and healing justice advocate, she co-founded the ReCenter. And through her lifelong dedication to the mystical and to personal practice, she brings emotional responsibility and internal cultivation to the forefront of healing justice work — the throughline of her upcominc book, Internal Social Justice in Medicine.

Born in Seattle and shaped by the wild beauty of Cascadia and the Salish Sea, Reya weaves together her life's work, her grounded wisdom, and her empirical knowledge into the pioneering field she calls Internal Social Justice™ — where the internal work becomes the engine for external change.

OUR MISSION &

METHOD

INTERNAL SOCIAL JUSTICE™ was born from a simple but radical premise: the change we seek in the world begins in the body.

This work holds that antiracism is not a performance enacted outward, but a practice cultivated inward

Internal Social Justice is the inner work for outer change.

It is a practice and asks all of us to become active, sincere, and relentless practitioners of Internal Social Justice

Our Mission

Internal Social Justice exists to increase anti-racist competence for educators, practitioners and activiest to amplify communities of belonging within their personal and professional lives. We support ISJ practitioners to reemerge and reorient themselves as responsive agents for change — people who re-center anti-racism as the guiding principle of both their work in the world.

Our Method

We work in three movements:

Re-Veal — uncovering how social norming and racial conditioning have shaped and manipulated our personal lives and professional choices, often beneath the level of conscious awareness.

Re-Train — recognizing and reconditioning out of unconscious racial bias, and fortifying the tools and practices that make antiracism sustainable rather than reactive.

Re-Emerge — engaging in generative conflict and loving disruption, becoming powerful, direct communicators and advocates for belonging.

This is the retraining of bodies out of embodied racial tension and into active, living antidotes — for the educational spaces we teach in, the organizations we build, and the healing justice work we practice.