Richael Faithful (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and strategist who weaves their gifts and skills in service to generational healing.
Their vocation holds multiple roles and expressions to meet the moment. Their practices require a dynamic state of learning and becoming, which they also believe reflects the shapeshifting necessary to presently exist in our realities and worlds.
Richael identifies as a tenderheart with roots in Washington DC / Chocolate City, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. They currently live in Washington DC with their wife and pitbull.
Richael believes their vocation is to practice love politic within a time of paradigm-shift.
LINEAGES & INFLUENCES
Healing justice, a framework developed by Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, and others, which they witnessed during their formative organizing years.
U.S. southern freedom struggles, as exhibited by Fannie Lou Hamer, Black women knowledge legacies, and working-class queer and trans organizers like Southerners on New Ground (SONG).
Contemporary visionary artists, such as Allison Janae Hamilton, Michael Owunna, A’driane Nieves, Rue Oliver,Saida Agostini, Ricardo Levins Morales, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, thickpress publishing, and my creative home, RiverShe Collective Arts.
Life-saving cultural organizers, like Shira Hassan, Mariame Kaba, Mia Mingus.
Strong leaders allow themselves to be led, so I’m a member of the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, Rooted Global Village, Law 4 Black Lives.
Masters in Divinity Candidate, Starr King School of Ministry (2024 - Present).
60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program, The Embody Lab (2023).
Going with Grace End of Life Training to become a Death Doula and End of Life Planner, Certificate of Completion (2021).
Level 1: Cooperative Leadership Certification Program, Round Sky Cooperative (2021).
Certificate of Shamanic Studies, completion of apprenticeship program with The Polarity Center and Shamanic Studies (2014).
Bar licenses in the Commonwealth of Virginia and District of Columbia (2011).
Juris Doctor with Outstanding Scholarship Honors, American University Washington College of Law (2011).
Bachelor of Arts with Academic Honors, Interdisciplinary Studies: American Inequality, Social Thought & Political Economy, The College of William & Mary (2007).
