Une Bonne Mort 2026

Rev. Dr. Renee McCoy is a Detroit born change maker.  As a child of the Civil Rights Movement, her life had been infused with the certainty of God’s commitment to end oppressions of any kind and trust in God’s promises of abiding and unconditional love and acceptance. She had also learned from her parents and grandparents that actively participating in God’s liberating and healing actions in the world was her responsibility.. She has worked in New York, Washington, D.C., Detroit, MI, and Seattle, WA. 

Dr. g (doc, c.r.glasgow, psyd, sep) is a multi-hyphenated human serving as poet, somatic psychologist, spiritual director, consultant & speaker. Cross-discipline, Dr. g is invested in building awareness around the roots of personal & collective suffering. doc utilizes the

confluence of creativity, spirituality & science to support participants along their journey towards liberation & peace. Their storytelling & healing expands fixed ideas of embodiment, time & place. doc has obtained many opportunities with their creative work & recent work can be found in the 2024 Emerge Anthology, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Black Lawrence Press & Callaloo. In nurturance of the work, Dr. g is continually asking what’s else possible & enjoys collaborations across disciplines, mimicking sounds, & eating their wife’s healthier versions of corner store snacks.

Adam Ballout has been a career public defender for over 18 years. In 2011, alongside Taila AyAy, Adam co-founded ABC Law Group LLP an Everett-based firm dedicated to parents’ representation in child welfare and juvenile cases.

Frustrated with the amount of children removed from their parents each month, in 2019, Adam alongside Neil Weiss helped launch the nonprofit F.I.R.S.T. (Family Intervention Response to Stop Trauma) Legal Clinic a medical-legal partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics and local allies to prevent the trauma of unnecessary family separations at birth.

Since it’s launch, the FIRST Clinic has become an international model for innovative approaches to keeping families together inspiring other models across the country.

Beyond the courtroom –Adam has served as board chair of the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and of Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County

Nancy Adams is a Seattle resident who found herself in an advocacy role when supporting her husband at the end of his life.   Managing her husbands health care, advocating for his wishes was a full time job.  It required working with medical professionals, ethics boards, hospice and A  Sacred Passing to get Skip the care he needed.  Nancy will share her perspective with us to close out our day.