Michele Kumi (久美) Baer is a facilitator, coach, educator, and cultural organizer working in and across the arts and philanthropic fields. A lifelong dancer, Michele’s sensibilities as a mover and choreographer shape how she strategizes, facilitates, and collaborates. As a coach, Michele enjoys creating an affirming and non-judgmental space for her coach partners to be present with the richness of their inner worlds—the thoughts, emotions, memories, and visions that reside there. Michele has a certification in liberatory coaching from the Coaching for Healing Justice and Liberation school. People reading this may also enjoy knowing that Michele is a Capricorn Sun, Pisces Moon, and Aries Ascendant. 

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Likes to talk to artists about: The big questions and dreams that are animating this season of their lives; what they are unlearning, undoing, and releasing; what they are welcoming, creating, weaving, and activating; how to build and call in support structures that feed and sustain their visions; how to interrupt racist, ableist, patriarchal, and colonial narratives that permeate the arts field; and what they imagine for the future.

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PHOTO: Shruti Parekh