Team Member
Bilphena Yahwon was born in Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia and is a Baltimore based writer, archivist and restorative practices specialist
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- All of her work (including her RP work) is concerned with the uses of memory for Black folks: How we inherit it, how we preserve it and how we pass it down. Yahwon is the curator of her online library, The Womanist Reader, and a founding member of New Generational Scholars Intergenerational Institute – An African-centered, free online institute for Black people of the world ages 13 and up. She was Washington Project for the Arts Summer Artist-Organizer-in-Residence (2021) and recently launched Archive Liberia as a site of collective memory for Liberians.
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Bilphena understands RP as more than just a tool but as a way of being that is grounded in our everyday commitments to love. Through her work as coach, she challenges and is also challenged to move the intention of love into action through the use of restorative tools.
