Janet Stickmon, founder and CEO of Janet Stickmon Consulting LLC, is an author and wellness consultant who has been an educator for over 26 years. Stickmon is a professor of Ethnic Studies at Napa Valley College where she has been teaching for 19 years. She is also the founding Program Coordinator of the Humanities, Ethnic Studies, and Philosophy Departments and the founding Program Coordinator of The Cultural Center at Napa Valley College. Stickmon is the author of Crushing Soft Rubies—A Memoir, Midnight Peaches, Two O’clock Patience—A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Short Stories on Womanhood and the Spirit, and To Black Parents Visiting Earth: Raising Black Children in the 21st Century. She is also known for her article, “Blackapina,” on life as a biracial woman of African American and Filipino American descent. Stickmon’s essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Mutha Magazine, The Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, Read to Write Stories, Positively Filipino, and Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies. She also has over 26 years experience practicing meditation and integrating mindfulness practices throughout all her courses. Janet Stickmon is the founder of CenterJoyPWR®: Strategies for Healing Racial Battle Fatigue—an online experience for professionals of color who want to heal their racial battle fatigue and center joy in their lives.