Meet the Doves

Rock Dove is a collective of anarchist and radical individuals who seek to address the need for helpful, accessible, non-hierarchical health assistance in our communities. We support de-centralized and non-oppressive forms and sources of physical, mental, emotional, sexual and spiritual well-being. We see this as both a daily necessity and a revolutionary strategy.

Alana
Alana got active in the anarchist movement in 2002 and has worked with the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists (NYMAA) and Anarchist People of Color (APOC). She has her MA in Health Education with a concentration in Human Sexuality, and works with teens to increase healthy sexual attitudes and behaviors. Alana believes that in order to fight for and ultimately create a truly fair and free world, you must simultaneously maintain a healthy mind, body and spirit.

Autumn
Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, theologian, artist, consensus trainer and facilitator. She is a founding member of the Rock Dove Collective, and Past President of the Board of Directors of the Fertility Awareness Center of New York. She is also a practitioner of the Fertility Awareness Method, a charting system for natural birth control, reproductive health, and body literacy. She is currently studying to be a Fertility Awareness teacher. Autumn loves being a member of Rock Dove because she believes that healthy bodies make healthy communities.

Danielle
Danielle's current work is in transformative justice and alternatives to incarceration, and she has been part of anti-violent, dignified, and empowering programs with urban youth since she was one herself. She has taught creative writing in prisons and jails in Chicago and Georgia, worked with court-involved youth in Harlem, facilitated dialogues in the aftermath of serious harm and violence, and led a sex education program in abstinence-only Atlanta schools. While in Atlanta, she created and directed a project to teach conflict resolution through the arts in inner city schools and juvenile detention centers and did extensive gang intervention work in her community. She convenes and trains folks in circle practices and other conflict transformation tools, and her cooking has come a long way from the Kraft macaroni and cheese and iceberg lettuce she grew up on. Danielle believes that the daily work of living healthily, happily, and generously with one another is the foundation for any radical social change. She likes pigeons very much.

Gregg Osofsky

Josh
Josh Reisner is Rock Dove's web designer. He works during the day at a nonprofit that helps families achieve a better quality of life. You can contact Josh through his website. Josh's cat Trouble is fascinated by pigeons.

Lauren
lauren is a rock dove and a rock dove provider. she believes strongly in the importance of self care and in creating more just access to health services for all people regardless of race, class or gender identity. she practices without judgment or prejudice, and is committed to doing her part to dismantle systems of oppression where she encounters them while standing in solidarity with those doing battle with the same systems. she believes that bartering and engaging in mutual aid exchanges for health services is one way to shift the paradigm and redefine what it really means to take care of one another. currently, she works in harm reduction, is growing herbs upstate and beginning a small herbal medicine company, good fight herb co. you'll find her this summer on metro north or riding her bike to the beach.

Maryse
Maryse is an organizer and native New Yorker who believes that well-being is itself a revolutionary process. In addition to her work with Rock Dove, she has been a part of various community-based efforts for radical, accessible, and transformative healing. She does harm reduction work with people in the sex trade at SWANK/SWOP-NYC and CitiWide Harm Reduction. Maryse received an MSW in Community Organization and Planning in June '09. A few of her favorite things are Prospect Park, late night meanders and Bluestockings Bookstore.

Stayc
Stayc is Rock Dove's awesome Volunteer!

Brad Will
We honor and celebrate the life and work of our friend Brad Will and we stand in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca and their continued struggle for autonomy.