Leah Kumayama (She/Her)
Founder

Leah Kumayama is a mother, Educator, Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology Teacher, survivor of domestic violence, and the creator of Holistic Empathy Development (HED), Psychological-Emotional Semiotics, and a Dreamworking Analysis framework to develop self-awareness, build empathy, and heal trauma and intergenerational trauma. Leah is also a singer, dancer, musician, poet, writer, actress, comedian, and artist with a diverse range of experience in the performing and creative arts since childhood.

Leah worked as a public health Youth Development Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine, a Refugee Women’s Empowerment Program Director in Phoenix, Arizona and a People Operations Manager at a social enterprise serving small-holder farmers in East Africa. She has a Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology Teacher certification from Canmore Counseling in Alberta, Canada. Leah holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Applied Political Economy, and Japanese from the University of Arizona, and studied for a year at Tokyo International University. Leah has a Master of Arts in Global Affairs & Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and briefly studied environmental protection and justice at INCAE in Costa Rica. She also studied Jewish Dreamworking at Kohenet.

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Leah's background in public health, safety, global development, intercultural empathy, global human resources, and the arts has shaped her focus on advocating for human, animal, environmental and social justice and rights. The needs of the underserved along with her life experiences inspire her work to teach Holistic Empathy Development (HED) and create a more peaceful world.​ 

Together, we are empathy.