Briana Strickland (any pronouns)

Briana is a passionate, queer creative that is drawn to understanding and working with the human condition, artistic expression and healing our connection to ourselves, humanity and the planet as a whole. As someone who’s lived in various places and struggled to reclaim the meaning of home, she’s proud to call Greensboro home and has resided here since 2015. They have worked as a peer supporter/community health care worker over the last 5 years where they operated a national warmline which is a peer led crisis alternative that is anti-carceral, to being involved with peer respite support-a voluntary community alternative to hospitalization and involuntary commitment, harm reductionist, disability justice and mad pride advocate, supporting unhoused neighbors, lgbtqia+ advocacy and much more. Briana is a facilitator for various trauma informed healing practices and engages in many creative pursuits. Briana aims to co-create a space that represents diversity, pleasure, belonging and exploration.