About Culture Shifters Community
Culture Shifters Community is a space for collective learning, healing, and transformation. We believe that meaningful change happens through relationships, collaboration, and the sharing of our unique perspectives and lived experiences.
Our work is shaped through partnerships with seasoned facilitators, coaches, educators, and community-based practitioners whose expertise spans leadership development, community violence prevention, restorative justice, organizational culture, well-being, and systems change. Together, we co-create workshops, learning experiences, coaching engagements, and community conversations that cultivate belonging, resilience, and collective impact.
Rather than a single organization or consulting practice, Culture Shifters serves as a hub for collaboration—bringing together people and organizations who share a commitment to equity, healing, and creating the conditions for people and communities to live and lead with greater connection and purpose.
About Ellery
Ellery Graves is a Healing-Centered Coach (ICF Certified thru Blooming Willow Life Coaching Institute), and trainer. She is the founder of Culture Shifters, supporting people working toward justice, healing, and collective liberation. Her work creates space to reconnect with what matters most, allowing each person’s unique strengths and inner power to guide them toward meaningful action in their lives and communities.
Over the last decade, Ellery’s approach has been shaped by her work at Oakland Private Industry Council and other Oakland-based community organizations, where she supported job seekers impacted by the justice system and community violence in securing livable-wage employment or career training, and stable housing. Centering purpose, agency, and dignity, she witnessed how transformation happens when people are supported not just in meeting goals, but in reconnecting to their power and vision for their lives. These relationships, along with her own lived experience and continued healing process continue to ground her coaching and training today.
Ellery now brings this healing-centered, justice-rooted approach to both individuals and organizations. Through 1-on-1 coaching and her monthly Amplifying Impact workshop series, she supports people committed to racial justice in untangling white supremacy culture from their bones and bodies, and deepening how they show up in alignment with their values. She also partners with community-based organizations to strengthen relationships, clarify values, and navigate the real challenges of living those values in practice.
Through her collaboration with Kevin Grant under EKG Trainings & Consulting, their offerings focus on strengthening relationships within teams, centering the wisdom of lived experience, and fostering curiosity and courageous conversations. Together, they create spaces that emphasize what’s strong with us—rather than what’s wrong with us—so we can more authentically and powerfully serve our communities. She has co-facilitated staff development trainings with local nonprofits and government entities including the City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention, La Familia, Westcoast Children's Clinic, Options Recovery Services, IHART of the City of Vallejo, A Better Way, Inc., Lincoln Families, Alameda County, and more.
Ellery believes healing starts (and continues) with strengthening the vitality of our relationship to our unique essence, our wins big and small, our connection to our lineage, what we hold sacred to us, and what we want to pass on to future generations. Ellery’s philosophies are based in her Buddhist practice of turning our karma into our mission.
If she’s not with her partner or family, you can find her sitting by the water of the Bay, playing drums with her band, rollerblading, writing, dancing, or enjoying live music with those she loves.
Ellery's Recent Inspiration
Kisa Soul - AGE OF ALIGNMENT
Beyoncé - BIGGER
Interview on VPR Radio
Collaborators & Creative Partners
Kevin Grant is a nationally recognized trainer, motivational speaker, and violence prevention leader whose work has transformed the lives of thousands of youth and community members throughout the Bay Area. With more than 30 years of experience in violence prevention, leadership development, and community engagement, Kevin brings deep wisdom, compassion, and practical insight to his work. As a frequent Culture Shifters collaborator, he co-creates learning experiences that strengthen relationships, cultivate resilience, and help individuals and teams build on what is strong within themselves and their communities.
Kat Culberg is a restorative justice facilitator, trainer, and social justice practitioner whose work centers healing, accountability, and transformation. Drawing on experience in public health, education, and restorative justice leadership, she has spent more than a decade supporting individuals and communities in creating meaningful change. As a collaborator with Culture Shifters and co-creator of Amplifying Impact, Kat brings deep expertise in restorative practices, courageous dialogue, and collective healing.
Taima Beyah
Kat Culberg
Taima Beyah is a leadership coach, organizational consultant, and facilitator with deep roots in social justice and community-centered change. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience in organizational leadership, human resources, operations, and coaching, she helps individuals and teams build authentic leadership, strengthen culture, and navigate change with compassion and purpose. Through her consulting firm Workthentic, she creates learning experiences that strengthen leadership, cultivate belonging, and align organizational culture with values and impact.
Mollie Crittenden
Mollie Crittenden is a certified transformational life coach, educator, and facilitator with more than 25 years of experience supporting racial justice, healing, and collective liberation. As a lead teacher with The UNtraining, her work centers on inner transformation, conscious growth, and helping individuals live with greater purpose, clarity, and alignment. Through her collaboration with Culture Shifters and co-creation of Nourishing New Ways, Mollie brings a grounded, compassionate presence that supports courageous reflection, deeper self-awareness, and meaningful personal and collective change.
Kevin Grant
Connect with Us
510-575-9992
ellery@cultureshift.live
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