Alexis Flanagan

Alexis Flanagan (she/ella) is a queer Black feminist DC girl whose heart pumps to the beat of “the Pocket” that holds down DC go-go music and culture. 

After living as an exchange student in Argentina and receiving a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from University of Maryland, College Park, Alexis was a K-12 and adult educator and certified simultaneous interpreter. She spent 20 years as a bilingual advocate, organizer, and trainer in state-wide sexual and domestic violence coalitions and as Assistant Director of a local shelter and rape crises center. Alexis was a Movement Maker in NoVo Foundation’s Move to End Violence and currently is Co-Director of Resonance Network, a system shifting network of worldbuilders visioning a world of mutual care and thriving for all.

Alexis is a Ancestral Bridge and Purpose Coach, Founder and CEO of ARVEL Group and creator of the Ancestral Bridging Brand, where she approaches coaching and consulting from a framework of transformative and adult learning theories, emergent and indigenous ways of knowing. An experienced Certified Life, Leadership and Executive Coach, Holistic Health Coach, Reiki Healer, ordained priest in the Rinzai Zen tradition, practitioner of Emergent Strategy and facilitator for transformation, Alexis helps badass, spirit-centered changemakers build connections to ancestral abundance and bold purpose to experience healing, transformation and liberation and align all they do with what, to them, matters the most.

She lives in Bowie, MD with her partner Marquita and her super cute fur baby, Boss.