Taylor Dominique Mason (they/them) is a transformative justice facilitator, healing arts practitioner, and filmmaker from Los Angeles and rooted in Chicago.
A graduate of UCLA and Columbia College Chicago, Taylor has worked in programming, development, and communications for organizations centering gender justice, ending the sexual abuse to prison pipeline among girls and women of color, and decarceration for twelve years. As a capacity building specialist and organizational consultant, Taylor supports organizations in the northeast, deep south, and midwest to create sustainable and healing-centered infrastructures. They have also facilitated with organizations in London (UK), Chiapas (Mexico), and across California.
Taylor’s written and visual work has been featured in HuffPost, ForHarriet, and Rootwork Journal, and largely centers femmes and families of color, and the ways in which marginalized communities strive for bodily autonomy and intergenerational healing through nature, ritual, and ancestral connection.
A yoga teacher, reiki and somatic practitioner, and restorative justice circle keeper, Taylor is also the co-founder and director of Black Brown + Breathing, a Chicago-based healing justice initiative working with BIPOC youth and communities to implement transformative justice and somatic-based practices.
Taylor’s certifications and trainings include:
The Resilience Toolkit (in progress)
Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy (in progress)
Mental Health First Aide
Transformative Mental Health
200 HR yoga teacher
Reiki Level II
Restorative Practice and Conflict Transformation
