

Lindsay-Rose Dykema, MD (she/her/hers)
President
Dr. Dykema graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2005 and completed her residency training at Columbia University, followed by fellowships in public psychiatry and psychosocial rehabilitation. She is a queer psychiatrist, prison/police abolitionist, and freelance writer whose work has been published in psychiatric journals, poetry anthologies, and Slate Magazine. She lives in Detroit and works as a staff psychiatrist (offering face-to-face and telehealth visits for folx with Medicaid insurance plans) at LifeStance Health.

Anais Stauffer (she/her/hers)
Treasurer/Administrative Staff
Anais Stauffer is a multi-disciplinary artist and lifelong radical. She seeks to mend the world through free expression and grounded revolutionary praxis. As a neurodivergent woman with lived experience, she hopes to foster liberation, solidarity, and healing in Detroit community members by highlighting the natural anarchistic tendencies of humanity and providing space for traumas to be processed.

Andrea Sims, LLMSW
(she/her, they/them)
Andrea Sims is an unambiguously Black, pansexual, cis-presenting, able bodied femme who works as a psychotherapist at Wild Ferns Wellness. Born and raised in Detroit, Andrea has a deep understanding of intersectionality and the obstacles marginalized folx are challenged with on a daily basis. Her areas of interest include creating safe therapeutic spaces for BIPOC, non-monogamous folx, and those in the queer communities. Her work addresses anxiety, depression, fat acceptance/liberation, intersectional stigmas, ableism, ageism, sexism, womanism, mindfulness, sexual liberation, sexual health, communication skills, academics, life skills, religious trauma, and the importance of Black femmes putting their cape down and resting.