Joanna Kent Katz is a social justice educator, intuitive healer, drama therapist, youth worker, Theater of the Oppressed practitioner, circle keeper and rite of passage ritualist. She is a political educator who centers healing and a healing practitioner who believes in collective liberation.
Jo practices the art of deep tending. Harvesting directly the wisdom of Ancestors and Guides, she serves as witness to, container for and catalyst of profound transformation of embodied paths and ancestral legacies. Jo supports clients in building their capacity to interrupt patterns of oppression, attending to the healing required to release ourselves, and one another, from our unconscious allegiance to systems that hold us captive, availing us to imagine and embody the world we long for.
As an educator, Jo creates and facilitates dynamic, liberatory anti-oppression trainings, supporting youth and young-adult leaders around the country to strengthen themselves as agents of social change.
Joanna holds a Masters degree in Social Justice Education from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a degree in Counseling Psychology/Drama Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Her garlic is currently planted on occupied land originally stewarded by the Nipmuc, Nonotuc and Pocomtuc Peoples, known by settlers as Northampton, Massachusetts.