Meet Our Staff
& Board Members
At Zepp Wellness, our staff and board look like you; your needs are our priority- focusing on safe housing, trauma recovery & management, stress & harm reduction, and various holistic healing services.
Tabytha Gonzalez
Tabytha is a TGNB community educator, public policy advocate, activist, outreach coordinator, office manager and mom in New York. Tabytha attends Hostos Community College-seeking her LMSW. She is also fluent in American Sign Language.
Director of Black Trans Services
Chanel Lopez
Chanel is a trans woman of color who is an activist and advocate for the trans/TGNC and non-binary community. Chanel is currently the transgender community liaison at the city commision on human rights in her city.
Run Me My Coin Facilitator
Kisha
Rivera
Run Me My Coin Facilitator
Kisha is a Black Trans woman from Brooklyn, New York. She is currently employed by the City of New York as a Residential Aid in a homeless shelter. Kisha is passionate about her community and serves as a Rent Relief Coordinator for Zepp Wellness Center's 'Run Me My Coin' fund for Trans women navigating s-x work.
Raquel
Savage
Raquel is a Therapist, Sex Educator and Sex Worker. She is trained as a counselor, specifically in Marriage and Family Therapy. She facilitates coaching, in-person sessions for residents of Florida, and online sessions for non-Florida residents. Additionally Raquel facilitates our online support group for femme-identified Sex Workers in collaboration with the Equitable Care Certification. Raquel took the tools taught in white supremacist, cisheteropatriarchal, capitalist graduate programs and uses them to heal the community she serves from a decolonized perspective.
Founder, Therapist
Leah
Santos
Leah is the founder of Ashe Vibes, a holistic self-care brand dedicated to women’s wellness. She is currently pursuing a masters in oriental medicine and is projected to begin practicing acupuncture and herbal medicine in 2022. Leah is both a student and teacher of Taoist energy work and specializes in qigong & neigong. It is through this work that she hopes to enhance the vitality and longevity of womxn everywhere.
Trauma Informed Energy Work
Mel
Diane
Mel is a first generation Mexican-American woman raised on Wichita, Kansa, Sioux, Osage Land (SE Kansas). Melissa’s passion for this work comes from lived experience as a bisexual non-black person of color, survivor of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and a sexual assault survivor (SAS) maneuvering through this world. As a child of immigrant parents, she has seen the constant violence toward immigrant communities first hand. Their internal fire fuels their desire to create and be of service to liberation. Melissa believes creativity is required to imagine a world free of oppressive systems.
Chief Operating Officer
Meagan
Jain
Meagan is a Brooklyn-based painter, muralist, and empowerment educator. For over a decade, Meagan has taught and inspired thousands of people ages 7-107 how to engage with creativity and find empowerment through painting. Meagan’s focus is to break down barriers of ageism, sexism, and fatphobia by giving people artful tools to amplify new ideas of self-love, confidence, and acceptance.
Art Class Instructor
Angie
Gunn
Angie Gunn LCSW CST, is an unapologetic badass seeking to effectively navigate & dismantle systems of oppression at every level. As a queer, kinky, non-monogamous abuse survivor and sex worker, she’s experienced the daily fight to balance personal and professional fulfillment and sexual expression. Through mediation, workshop facilitation and one on one support, her goal is personal integration with all the parts of herself, to provide transformation for all the parts of each of you, your relationships, and your communities.
Clinical Director
Board Members
Nina
Bailey
Mel is a first generation Mexican-American woman raised on Wichita, Kansa, Sioux, Osage Land (SE Kansas). Melissa’s passion for this work comes from lived experience as a bisexual non-black person of color, survivor of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and a sexual assault survivor (SAS) maneuvering through this world. As a child of immigrant parents, she has seen the constant violence toward immigrant communities first hand. Their internal fire fuels their desire to create and be of service to liberation. Melissa believes creativity is required to imagine a world free of oppressive systems.
Board Member
Natalie
Pierre-Louis
Natalie Pierre-Louis is a licensed attorney and business formation specialist. She helps creatives and entrepreneurs navigate the legal steps during the startup phase of business. She is passionate about making business and legal education as accessible to everyone as possible as she truly believes that entrepreneurship is one of the best ways to improve one's life circumstances. She teaches through a combination of one-on-one coaching, digital products and a live show on social media where she teaches business concepts using pop culture and celebrity news.
Legal
Pam
Zappardino
Coming Soon.
Co-Chair
Jenna
Torres
Leah is the founder of Ashe Vibes, a holistic self-care brand dedicated to women’s wellness. She is currently pursuing a masters in oriental medicine and is projected to begin practicing acupuncture and herbal medicine in 2022. Leah is both a student and teacher of Taoist energy work and specializes in qigong & neigong. It is through this work that she hopes to enhance the vitality and longevity of womxn everywhere.
Trauma Informed Energy Work
Ro
Boyce
Meagan is a Brooklyn-based painter, muralist, and empowerment educator. For over a decade, Meagan has taught and inspired thousands of people ages 7-107 how to engage with creativity and find empowerment through painting. Meagan’s focus is to break down barriers of ageism, sexism, and fatphobia by giving people artful tools to amplify new ideas of self-love, confidence, and acceptance.
Art Class Instructor
Danielle
Lucero
Angie Gunn LCSW CST, is an unapologetic badass seeking to effectively navigate & dismantle systems of oppression at every level. As a queer, kinky, non-monogamous abuse survivor and sex worker, she’s experienced the daily fight to balance personal and professional fulfillment and sexual expression. Through mediation, workshop facilitation and one on one support, her goal is personal integration with all the parts of herself, to provide transformation for all the parts of each of you, your relationships, and your communities.