Tasjha Dixon

Kiesa Kay

Kiesa Kay, BSJ, MA, RYT-200, poet and playwright, created a 12 part video series, Transforming Trauma through Creative Self Expression, for Survivor Space, a division of Zero Abuse Project. Her plays have been performed in seven states. Her works include a memoir, Tornado Alley; two educational anthologies; a novel; and three books of poetry. In 2025, she was inducted into the Gardner-Edgerton High School Alumni Hall of Fame. Her website is Kiesa Kay | Writing Workshops

Andrea Leeb 

Andrea Leeb is a writer and survivor advocate from Venice Beach, California. She has an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars, and her work has been published in numerous literary journals including Litro Magazine, the Potomac Review, Text, Power and Telling Magazine, and HerStry. Previously, Andrea worked as an attorney and as a registered nurse. Her memoir, Such a Pretty Picture will be published by She Writes Press/distributed by Simon & Schuster on Oct. 14, 2025. https://andrealeebauthor.com

Greg Smith

BA English, Secondary Education Teaching Certification

As someone whose life has been deeply touched by numerous encounters with the Transformative Language Arts, he is honored to help further the mission of the TLA Network, having participated in Power of Words conferences, Brave Voice retreats, and writing classes offered by Turning Point. While he has always cherished and supported those whose creativity in various mediums such as the spoken, written, or sung word, and how they greatly enrich all our lives; he has recently begun to do so himself. First, by completing a memoir as part of his legacy to his family, and now, beginning to put together a memoir on his wife Diane's and their family's experience of their encounter with Diane's vascular dementia. Diane's initial involvement with all these TLA activities has opened the door for his participation here as well, for which he will remain forever grateful!