Kendra Hale is a tenderhearted and fierce healing justice worker, community cultivator, culture-shifter, language artist, and compassionate disruptor. She is compelled by opportunities to construct practices, systems, and communal spaces that serve our humanness. To address the individual and collective impact of oppressive violence, she calls in the art and power of language through storytelling, truth-telling, and acknowledgement. Through poetry and other writing forms, Kendra uncovered liberation within the embrace of language. She often speaks to the wisdom and power of her ancestors as a Black, Multiracial woman, exploring it through her poem Ancestral Medicine published in The South Seattle Emerald.