Joyful Mind Project

Samara dotson, board MEMBER

Samara Dotson (she/her) has supported the growth of many nonprofit and grassroots organizations, including those with missions of disrupting youth homelessness, Intimate Partner Violence, and climate injustice. She’s also a dedicated Zen student, supporting families at San Francisco Zen Center. Samara utilizes a liberation frame for educating outside of traditional school systems and supporting families interested in alternative education. As a previous JMP Co-Executive Director and current Board Member, Samara is supporting our mission of bringing ease and equity, joy and justice into the world. On the weekends you might her find investing in Indigenous farming methods or participating in communities dedicated to compassionate action.

karyl Averill, key collaborator

Karyl Averill (she/her) is dedicated to helping community heal from late stage capitalism and determined to bring a gift economy forward so that inequity and injustice might yield to abundance. Karyl helped initiate JMP’s classification as a nonprofit 501c3 in 2016. As a community organizer and systems thinker, Karyl worked at the ground level of Occupy Wall Street where she honed skills for utilizing non-hierarchical organizational structures that foster equity from the inside out.  As a JMP Key Collaborator and previous CFO, Karyl’s vision of a world beyond scarcity is a guiding light. On the weekends, you might find Karyl making soup for a friend or advocating for transgender rights.

Chelsea is our key service provider for all clinical and consulting services. Learn more about her background approach here.

Chelsea True, founder

Chelsea True, MA, LMFT, #144330 (she/they) is dedicated to disrupting norms that perpetuate harm. As a neurodivergent person, licensed psychotherapist, and Zen student/teacher, Chelsea is passionate about seeing through constructs, honoring different abilities, bodies, and neuro-types, and collaborating with folx who have been historically denied access to resources. Chelsea holds a BA in Religious Studies, a MA in Integral Counseling Psychology, and a certificate in Integral Somatic Trauma Therapy. She’s the founder of JMP, an adjunct professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Family Programs Director at San Francisco Zen Center. On the weekends, you might find her making offerings to her ancestors or working to get all beings free.