2021
Meet Well+Good's
changemakers
2021
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Awareness of our health and well-being kicked into overdrive last year and shows no sign of slowing. In 2021, these wellness innovators will change the way we all (not just a select few) eat, move, think, and care for ourselves and each other. Learn their names… you’ll be hearing much more from them.
Chris Corsini
Tarot Card Reader and Founder, Inward Boutique
Chris Corsini is a tarot card reader, astrologer, activist, and advocate for the Deaf community who hosts popular tarot-astrology readings on his Instagram and YouTube channel. As a professional American Sign Language interpreter by trade, all of the content he creates is accessible to deaf and hearing people alike.
Sinikiwe Dhliwayo
Founder, Naaya
With Naaya, Sinikiwe Dhliwayo is “determined to shift the paradigm that tells us that in order to be well you have to be, white, affluent, and able-bodied.” Naaya’s robust slate of offerings includes The Check-In, an initiative that provides meditation, yoga, and mental-health resources to BIPOC youth, and the just-launched Black Folks Breathing, which Dhliwayo calls a “no-holds-barred love letter to being Black.”
Evelynn Escobar
Founder and Executive Director, Hike Clerb
Evelynn Escobar is a social activist and the founder and executive director of Hike Clerb, an intersectional womxn's hike club based in Los Angeles. She hopes to reconnect Black, Indigenous, and people of color to the nature from which they have been systemically separated so they can access its scientifically-proven health benefits.
Aneela Idnani
Co-Founder, HabitAware
With HabitAware, co-founder Aneela Idnani Kumar seeks to destigmatize and bring awareness to body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRB) like hair-pulling, nail-biting, skin-picking, and other self-grooming behaviors, which affect an estimated 20 percent of Americans. The company’s first wearable, Keen, is a tech-enabled bracelet that vibrates to bring a wearer’s attention to an unwanted BFRB, and the just-launched Keen2 seeks to take that awareness a step further by facilitating holistic action.
Jaznel Mosby
Founder, Trauma With Your Mama
As a spirit-based and spirit-lead wellness facilitator, Jaznel Mosby—known as J. Chavae—is the founder of Trauma With Your Mama and helps to lead people back to themselves through introspection, meditation, movement, and her own writing. Chavae is passionate about creating more spaces of rest, ease, and being.
Rebecca Alvarez Story
Founder and CEO, Bloomi
Sexologist Rebecca Alvarez Story founded Bloomi to provide a platform for finding sexual health products free of potentially harmful chemicals and safe for use. Story’s intention for Bloomi, which sells its own products in addition to others, is for it to help you “be the CEO of your body.”
Leah Thomas
Founder, Intersectional Environmentalist and Green Girls Co.
Leah Thomas is the founder and CEO of both Intersectional Environmentalist and Green Girls Co., which push for an intersectional approach to environmental and cannabis justice. Seeing how social justice is intrinsically tied to these two movements, she works to hold companies and platforms within them accountable.
Corinne Wainer
Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer, Shaktibarre
Corinne Wainer co-founded Shaktibarre to create a safe and inclusive space for people to experience barre. Once the pandemic hit, she pivoted to launch The Shaktibarre App, allowing her team to continue leading their community at an affordable price point.
