Hi, I'm Hunter

I'm a chaplain, counselor, harm reductionist, and meditation guide. I care about liberation, healing, and personal peace. I love supporting sex workers, drug users, activists, queer and trans people, nonmonogamous people, punks, artists, and all other beloved weirdos!

What is it?

A community chaplain serves as a spiritual and emotional support during times of need. I’m not associated with a particular religion, but have trained to work with people of any (including no) faith. I mostly meet with people online for counseling, grief processing, ritual work, listening, blessings, and ceremony.

I often help people

  • navigate religious trauma and explore their own unique spirituality

  • process estrangement from family

  • grieve the loss of a loved one due to suicide, violence, or overdose

  • create meaningful ceremony or ritual to acknowledge important life events like gender transition, partnership, sobriety, new birth, and death

Education and Experience

I am a Community Chaplain and Minister ordained by the Order of Universal Interfaith, an Interfaith ecclesiastical religious society. I hold a Master of Arts in Social Change (MASC) with a Chaplaincy Concentration from Starr King School for the Ministry in Oakland, California. I lead a monthly online Sex Worker Sangha meditation and support group, hosted by the East Bay Meditation Center.

I have worked as a Certified Counselor and Coach and hold a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in LBGT and Sexuality Studies. I worked in the realms of healing and actualization for over 13 years as a private practice counselor, sex educator, and sex worker. I participate in continued anti oppression trainings. In 2010 I first completed training in working effectively with dually diagnosed people, people who use drugs, and burnout prevention at the Harm Reduction Coalition in Oakland. In 2009 I was trained as a Sex Educator by Good Vibrations. 

I've been featured in stories by the Associated Press, SF Chronicle, LA Times, and various independent online media outlets in regard to sex worker rights organizing. I've spoken at Bay Area Open Minds, San Francisco Sex Information trainings, San Francisco State University, JFK University, University of San Francisco, CatalystCon West, BIL Conference Long Beach, and the Third Assembly of the People's Health Movement in Cape Town, South Africa. I served in leadership of the Bay Area chapter of the Sex Worker's Outreach Project from 2008-2015 and also served on the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club board in San Francisco in 2009.