MY CLIENTS are influential.
Your work and practices shift the cultural needle for social groups, individuals, movements and communities.
Your perspectives are generative: You cause people to consider different questions & possibilities,
to invent new approaches,
to release what is no longer working. 

Lucinda Pepper wearing a purple dress and purple/pink spectacles, looking up at the sky, in front of oak trees and a field of grass.

Lucinda Pepper

Purpose & Clarity

Through coaching, writing, speaking & consulting, I bring powerful clarity and facilitate personal and collective transformation.

I create and support brave spaces where the catalyzing tools of empathy, active love & kindness can be practiced.

My work reveals dynamics that need to shift from siloed and individualistic toward interconnectedness and collective care.

My work supports bold changemakers, cultural creatives, unconventional leaders and edgewalkers. My purpose is to engage people in active love practices to interrupt interpersonal violence while working to bring new and necessary worlds into being.

Unconventional & Non-Linear

My career has been unconventional and non-linear.
I have an extensive background as a trauma-informed body-based healer, teacher, and facilitator working within social justice frameworks. My superpowers include trauma-informed communication practices, working with conscious & inclusive language, embodiment, embodied self-regulation skills & embodied trauma healing practices including movement, yoga, mindfulness and bodywork.

I have spoken to audiences and groups, and facilitated workshops on healing, wellness and resilience, self-care and community care, and the intersections of healing and social justice. I have spoken and presented at:

  • colleges and universities,

  • health centers,

  • county service centers,

  • businesses,

  • conferences & health fairs,

  • and nonprofits.

Locating & Situating

I am a gender-prismatic (nonbinary) queer Femme who uses they/themme or Mx pronouns. I am a white person of primarily Scottish, Welsh & English ancestry living in the U.S. as a result of white settler colonialism. Though I live with the (improving) mental-health effects of ACEs and various adult traumas, I am a mostly (temporarily) non-diabled person.
I am living on unceded lands in the upper Midwest, U.S., known for generations as Mnisota, and still the lands of Dakotah people.

  • Experience

    (for current/client projects see portfolio page)

    30 years in business roles from administrative & executive assistant to board member to 2x entrepreneur: conceptualization, writing & broad and deep editing of a vast array of communications & marketing materials (digital and analog).

    12+ years as a community businessperson and non-digital influencer focused on intersectional trauma-informed healing, body based healing, and collective wellness.

    30+ years of passionate engagement with and study of spirituality, meditation and devotion, somatic healing, embodiment, body-based healing, trauma healing, communication skills, conscious language, human potential, self-help and self improvement, physical wellness, writing, ritual, dance and movement, folklore, symbolism, myth, archetypal wisdom, cooperatives and collectives, environmental healing, queer Femmes, queer communities and personal & collective liberation.

  • Education & Professional Development

    Member: American Copy Editing Society (ACES- since 2020) ongoing professional development on subjects including: working with self-publishing authors, anti-capitalistic marketing & business development, magazine editing, plain language, use of the singular ‘they,’ microaggressions in editing, and more.

    Member: LGBTQ+ Editors Association (since 2022)

    Member: Association of Writers & Writing Programs (since 2024)

    Selected Previous Education:

    Business communication certification: Minnesota School of Business

    Communications & Urban Planning undergraduate dual-focus degree, University of Minnesota (incomplete)

  • Inspiration & Influences

    Recently:

    AWP 2024; my writing accountability buddy, my writer pals, QTWriters Support Circles (com mg back soon!); LGBTQIA+ histories; S4P; braided essays in general; Ebony Steward; Bill Holm; long walks; Februllage; reading-writing-making art every chance I get; deepening ritual presence.

    Previously (22-23)

    Wendy Brown-Baez, Elena Anderson & their Writing to Wholeness Collective project; Evolve Benton, BX Barclay, the S4P team and all the brilliant people I’m meeting there; sledding face-first down hill; Carolyn Holbrook’s memoir Tell Me Your Names & I Will Testify, Erin Sharkey just existing in this world; mentorship and coaching with Naomi Cohn. Ross Gay- Inciting Joy; Billy Porter- Unprotected; Viola Davis- Finding Me; Next In Fashion Season 2; ballet and hip hop classes. Jacoby Ballard- A Queer Dharma.