Empowerment for Anti-Racist Organizers and Community Members

About Ellery

Ellery Graves is a Healing-Centered Coach (ICF Certified thru Blooming Willow), and Trainer supporting people working toward justice, healing, and collective liberation. Her coaching creates space to reconnect with what matters most, and allows each person’s unique strengths and inner power to guide them toward their vision.

Over the last decade she has focused her work on supporting job seekers impacted by the justice system in securing livable wage employment and stable housing, all while centering purpose and agency as drivers of change in their lives and our community. In addition to 1-on-1 coaching, Ellery facilitates Amplifying Impact, a monthly workshop series that supports anti-racists in the untangling of white supremacy culture from our bones and bodies, and deepening our role in racial justice.

She brings these same principles into her trainings, supporting community-based organizations not only to meet funding requirements and deliverables, but to stay deeply rooted in their mission, clarify their values, and face the challenges of living them out. Through her collaboration with Kevin Grant under EKG Trainings, 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 non-profits and government entities, including the City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention, Westcoast Children's Clinic, Options Recovery Services, Integrated Health And Resource Team (IHART) of the City of Vallejo's 911 dispatch, A Better Way, Inc., Lincoln Families, La Familia, Alameda County, and many more.

Ellery believes healing starts (and continues) with strengthening the vitality of our relationship to our self, our unique essence, our wins big and small, our connection to our lineage and 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 biggest obstacles into the vital nutrients for our growth.

If she’s not with her partner or her family, you can find her sitting by the water of the Bay, playing her favorite songs on the drums with her band, writing, creating, at open mics, dancing or enjoying live music with those she loves.