Meet Our Educators
Jennifer Devine
Founder
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Alexander Cotton
Program Manager
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Ling Ling Lee
Community Sexuality Educator
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Natalia Tocino
Community Sexuality Educator
Natalia Tocino (she/ella) has been a Bilingual sexual health educator for over 20 years. She has taught comprehensive sexual health and puberty education to children, youth and adults at all levels of elementary and secondary education. She has facilitated workshops for parent and caregiver conferences, school districts, the juvenile justice system, community based organizations, and in foster care and faith-based settings. She is the founder of a Spanish speaking adult peer education program (a 'Promotoras' program) in Contra Costa County, which just celebrated its 15 year anniversary. She is also the vice chair of the YES Nature to Neighborhoods board, the founder of the Contra Costa Latinx Giving Circle and the chair of United Latino Voices. She loves to learn new things, meet new people, dance, bake, advocate for Social/Reproductive Justice, travel and spend time with friends and family. |
Sabine Tegura
Community Sexuality Educator
Sabine Tegura is a Rwandan immigrant raised in the Midwest. She enjoys painting, portraiture, music, rapturous dancing, and many forms of written expression. She completed her BSW at St. Olaf College in 2012 and currently resides in Oakland, California. As a Superstar Health Educator, Sabine weaves together fun, freedom, and passion along with a deep respect for consent and trauma in order to present an optimistic and healthy vision for the children who are, even now, the embodiment of the future which we seek. She is grateful to each child and school administration for the opportunity to open this conversation about changing bodies, and expects to learn as much as she teaches. |
Rob Strawder
Community Sexuality Educator
Robert has worked with California Youth since 1990. He has worked as a counselor and Lead Counselor at Larkin Street Youth Services in SF’s Tenderloin and a Program Coordinator at Health Initiatives for Youth. His life’s journey was thrown off course in 2012, when he survived a house fire that caused 75% burns across his body and put him into a 6 week coma; when he awoke he had a new respect for the preciousness of today. This led to him working as a Burn Survivor group facilitator in 2014 with the Phoenix Society of Burn Survivors; where he continues to volunteer. He is currently in graduate school at SFSU. He brings his unique life experiences and inner city upbringing to help build up the youth he teaches. He often says “It gets better. That doesn’t mean it gets easier." |
Superstar Substitute Teachers and Former Employees
Community Sexuality Educator and Curriculum Developer/Editor
Ray Sukin Klauber is a facilitator, curriculum developer, and trauma/crisis intervention specialist who has been working with young people for 16 years. Ray has a BA in Sociology and is a Certified Sexuality Educator through Planned Parenthood (2005) and San Francisco Sex Information (2007). Ray's career centers accessibility, positive sexuality, consent, transformative healing, popular education, harm reduction and anti-oppression. He works wherever young people can be found, from schools to foster care, from community centers to jails. Ray is known for his ability to create safer spaces for young people to learn new information and practice skills they can apply to their lives. Ray is a strong believer in the power and the leadership of young people.
Ray Sukin Klauber is a facilitator, curriculum developer, and trauma/crisis intervention specialist who has been working with young people for 16 years. Ray has a BA in Sociology and is a Certified Sexuality Educator through Planned Parenthood (2005) and San Francisco Sex Information (2007). Ray's career centers accessibility, positive sexuality, consent, transformative healing, popular education, harm reduction and anti-oppression. He works wherever young people can be found, from schools to foster care, from community centers to jails. Ray is known for his ability to create safer spaces for young people to learn new information and practice skills they can apply to their lives. Ray is a strong believer in the power and the leadership of young people.
Community Sexuality Educator
Uraeus Blythe is Certified Massage Therapist, MSW, Puberty and Sex Ed Teacher, and Empathic Life Coach, East Coast native, living, working, and loving in San Francisco for more than 12+ years.
They have a tapestry of community organizing experience; stemming from teaching sexual consent and how to create healthy personal boundaries to the body-positive movement and self-care/self-motivation to young people and adults. Uraeus facilitates a full range of self-care workshops around the country, promoting self-love and happiness integration in our everyday lives. Uraeus uses "They/Them" or Unicorn/Dragon pronouns.
Uraeus Blythe is Certified Massage Therapist, MSW, Puberty and Sex Ed Teacher, and Empathic Life Coach, East Coast native, living, working, and loving in San Francisco for more than 12+ years.
They have a tapestry of community organizing experience; stemming from teaching sexual consent and how to create healthy personal boundaries to the body-positive movement and self-care/self-motivation to young people and adults. Uraeus facilitates a full range of self-care workshops around the country, promoting self-love and happiness integration in our everyday lives. Uraeus uses "They/Them" or Unicorn/Dragon pronouns.
Amazing Administrator (Former)
Michelle "Misha" Palin loves to make awesome organizations more awesome. The combination of sociology, creative expression, and social change has inspired her career and volunteerism for over three decades. Misha's interests have led her to support many organizations that are dedicated to social change including public health, alternative medicine, and the arts. She was honored to work on the larges social research study for understanding the spread of HIV/AIDS in the late 90's, while also playing a key role in organizing El Dia de Los Muertos/The Day of the Dead, in San Francisco. She also helped start-up the largest alternative medical practice in Santa Cruz, CA; while co-producing a very successful theatrical fundraiser for The 418 Project., a central meeting space for dance and performance. She is obsessed with inquiry-based transformation and is a life coach, communication educator, and mediator through her private practice. She's now runs her own private mediation practice called Clearing Conversations.
Michelle "Misha" Palin loves to make awesome organizations more awesome. The combination of sociology, creative expression, and social change has inspired her career and volunteerism for over three decades. Misha's interests have led her to support many organizations that are dedicated to social change including public health, alternative medicine, and the arts. She was honored to work on the larges social research study for understanding the spread of HIV/AIDS in the late 90's, while also playing a key role in organizing El Dia de Los Muertos/The Day of the Dead, in San Francisco. She also helped start-up the largest alternative medical practice in Santa Cruz, CA; while co-producing a very successful theatrical fundraiser for The 418 Project., a central meeting space for dance and performance. She is obsessed with inquiry-based transformation and is a life coach, communication educator, and mediator through her private practice. She's now runs her own private mediation practice called Clearing Conversations.