Lukas 'louie' Soto (Ojibwe/Mapuche), is a shapeshifting two-spirit healer, visionary, death doula, and all-around baddie. A tried-and-true West Coast baby, they split their time between Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon.

 

Professionally, louie has spent the past decade consulting on a variety of topics centered around community, justice, and healing. They have utilized their own journey as an autoethnographic experiment in exploring how transformation, healing, and accomplishing the impossible is made possible. louie has worked with a variety of clients on local, regional, national, and international stages to achieve racial equity and social justice. 

 

louie could rattle off the resume list of accomplishments they've made over the span of their career, but truly the most important facets of their work is what led them to it in the first place. They are a proud mother to a beautiful 15-year-old son, a survivor of the prison industrial complex, a person in long-term recovery, a survivor of trauma and abuse, a child of immigrants, a 1st generation college graduate, and a fierce protector and warrior for the people. 

 

Most recently, their work has been focused on suicide prevention in Black and Indigenous communities, BIPOC mental health, TGNC housing advocacy, queer data research and policy work, capacity building for TGNC leaders, TGNC immigrant and refugee advocacy, and collective community healing. 

 

You can catch them at a hotspring, rockhounding, foraging, loving on animals, or nourishing their community on any given day, and they so look forward to connecting and building community with you!