Jennelle Ramdeen

Jennelle Ramdeen (she/they) is a Black queer healing justice practitioner, social justice educator, and founder of Lavender Veil, a consulting organization stewarding healing spaces as the foundation to liberation and systemic change.

In the youth work world, they currently lead the Youth Action Institute, a youth policy research and advocacy program in NYC. Over the years, they have studied and created spaces for politicized healing using their reiki practice to transform relationships to accountability and harm. They are currently the Trauma Stewardship Facilitator at the Northwest Network. Jennelle previously served as the healing and safety committee co-chair of the New York City chapter of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100).