HOMEplxce Founder + CEO Steward

LAKHIYIA is the spoken word consultant is a public health cultural shapeshifter, freedom art alchemist, inviting us to remember who we are, call all of our fragmented parts home, and get y/our power back.

Depending on our community needs at hand, this may mean masquerading as a business consultant, poet, participatory action researcher, singer, director, dancer, curriculum developer, kuringa/joker, educational curator drawing forth leadership wrapped in y/our radical authenticity–and you name it.

Lakhiyia holds a Bachelors from Northwestern, Masters from USC, Cornell University Certificate in Womxn’s Entrepreneurship, lecturing years at UCLA, and is currently a Critical Disability Studies Adjunct Instructor in the Portland State University School of Social Work. Pedagogy/Theatre of the Oppressed ground Lakhiyia's feet with deep roots in multidisciplinary means for being the fact of our freedom in a world designed to systematically undermine belonging as birthright. Lakhiyia has over 16 years of lived, academic, and professional experience community-educating and consulting in public health, including community-health worker model integration; participatory action research; diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism organizational change; transformative justice accountability systems design and implementation; capacity-building; monitoring and evaluation; curricula-development; and staff retreat facilitation.

Growing up GenderQueer, Blxck, and Bible-Belted in the U.S. Midwest, Lakhiyia means “home” in isiXhosa and Haitian Creole. The voice of Sermon I Wish I’d Heard and Get Y/Our Power Back–available exclusively in the HOMEplxce App (IOS and Android)–Lakhiyia co-hosts HOMEplxce to be an educational, business, and strategy consulting space committed to Self-determined Intergenerational Wealth Cultivation™ as a practice of Economic and Transformative Healing Justice. Publications available.

https://www.lakhiyia.com/
@lakhiyia | nø pronouns

HOMEplxce Humxn-Systems Designer & Developer

LASHAWN NEVINS is a Humxn-Systems Designer & Developer and coach who blends an engineering foundation with holistic insight to help people and organizations build futures that are intentional, sustainable, and humxn-centered. With a background in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Human Factors, and Ergonomics, LaShawn specializes in translating big vision into repeatable systems—turning complex ideas into clear frameworks, workflows, and real-world execution.

Drawing from Human Factors and Ergonomics principles alongside Astrology and Human Design, LaShawn helps reduce friction, strengthen decision-making, and design structures with the humxn in mind. Known as a systems architect, operational translator, and infrastructure builder, they design across onboarding and retreat operations—identifying pain points, strengthening consistency, and building experiences that are emotionally safe, usable, and effective.

In practice, LaShawn supports multi-stage career transitions (grounding in strengths and direction, translating that into compelling storytelling across interviews, networking, and building confidence in strategy and negotiation). As a certified coach and experienced facilitator, she also design and lead group experiences, community learning spaces, and collaborative creative programs—bringing structure, warmth, and momentum to rooms that need both clarity and play. At the core of her work is a commitment to helping change agents get to the truth of who they are, move through fear, and build lives and businesses rooted in trust, clarity, and intentional action.

@naturally_lashawn | She/Her/Hers

HOMEplxce Brand Immersion Architect

SHANECIA CLARKE is an immersive designer and creative devoted to shaping how experience feels, looks, and lives across every touchpoint. With over a decade of experience across design and technology, she blends visual storytelling, digital infrastructure, and experiential thinking to create environments that are coherent, intentional, and alive.

Shanecia’s practice spans graphic design, branding, digital illustration, 3D visualization, immersive environments, and spatial design. She is especially skilled at translating vision into lived experience—whether through a website, a visual identity, a retreat environment, or a systems flow working quietly in the background to support ease. Grounded in a strong background in IT infrastructure and software administration, Shanecia brings a rare union of technical precision and artistic intuition.

Her training includes an Associates in Simulation and Game Development at Central Piedmont Community College and MIT xPRO Certification in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. At HOMEplxce, she helps design the full journey—blending physical, digital, and interactive experiences so each offering feels emotionally aligned, visually rooted, and held with care. From design and automation tools to brand systems and immersive spaces, Shanecia helps ensure the experience calls people in, supports their nervous systems, and reflects the deeper integrity of the work. She builds for resonance, clarity, and belonging—so that HOME is not only seen or heard, but felt. Her work is shaped by a commitment to sustainability, cultural significance, and experiences that captivate, educate, and inspire—bringing ideas into form in ways people can move through, trust, and remember.

@necidev7 | She/Her/Hers