Resmaa
Menakem
Therapist and clinician specialized in racial trauma and advocating for Somatic Abolitionism.
Embodied provocateur, multiple-levels thinker, and structural paradigm-shifter Resmaa Menakem (MSW, LICSW, SEP), based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid. He is an educator and coach, the originator and leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism – an embodied antiracist practice for living and culture building – and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute. Working at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, Resmaa Menakem is the challenging yet compassionate coach we all need in this time of racial reckoning and near-global dysregulation.
Resmaa is known as the author of the New York Times bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
Resmaa has worked as a community care counselor, a domestic violence counselor, a social worker, a youth counselor and a community organizer. He is a key collaborator and facilitator for Education for Racial Equality, and a sought-after public speaker and panelist who has been a guest on numerous radio and TV shows and podcasts.
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