Isabella Gitana (she/they) is the founder of Survivor Arts Collective. It is a queer and trans, peer led, collective that facilitates support groups and peer to peer counseling for survivors of sexual and relationship violence and trauma. We are passionate about working together with our community offering trauma informed care, bystander intervention, & transformative justice community education t
raining, as well as our grassroots community mutual aide & care network. Isabella is a Rape Crisis Counselor Advocate, artist, somatic bodyworker, and survivor. They identify as a queer, working class, fat, Xicana Indigenous human who thinks it is integral to intersect a peer model of facilitation with anti-racist activism and art to assist in their own healing and open pathways for community to heal themselves.