Heron Brae

Heron Brae is a community builder, educator, and facilitator with over 25 years of experience in grassroots intersectional anti-oppression movements. She practices peer-to-peer listening within a liberation framework and has deeply engaged in personal emotional learning, facing systems of power, and healing ancestral trauma and shame in her Celtic and Germanic lineage. As a descendant of early settlers to the US, emotional empathy is crucial to her work of un-numbing. Heron also has extensive knowledge of botany, ecology, and herbalism, teaching people to harvest, use, and care for wild plants while understanding the colonial context. At Live Oak Consulting, she co-facilitates training, including affinity groups for non-Native people to build emotional resilience and skills for decolonial work. In her free time, Heron enjoys camping in remote locations, harvesting wild plants, cooking, loving her community, and marveling at life’s mysteries.