Katrina is a Virginia born and raised, southern womyn. She recently completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. An avid Feminist, Katrina makes use of this womyn centered worldview to advocate for her community. Specializing in Sex Therapy, trauma focused therapy, and the LGBT community, Katrina has experience working with many diverse populations. Katrina’s interests and passions lie with Womyn’s issues, public policy, youth advocacy, and racial oppression. Katrina loves being able to use the arts as a medium for social justice change and hopes that EPC will have a signficant impact on the lives of queer womyn of color everywhere. In addition, she is a Leadership Team Member for the Chicago based nonprofit Project Fierce Chicago; an organization who's mission is to reduce LGBTQ youth homelessness in Chicago by providing affirming, no-cost transitional housing and comprehensive support services to homeless LGBTQ young adults.

Katrina began as a fan of EPC's work having been a member of the audience at EPC's (formerly Minor Details) first show "That's What She Said." Amazed by the work Sadiqua was doing, she quickly joined the collective and eventually became Executive Director where she now along with Sadiqua excitedly merge psychology and the arts for the betterment of their communities.

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Born and raised in Chattanooga, TN, Sadiqua Iman Crutcher is an interdisciplinary artist that challenges preconceived notions of marginalized identities through theater, dance, poetry, song, and photography. She received an A.A. in Musical Theatre from Miami’s New World School of the Arts, her B.A. in Theatre with a minor in Dance at The University of Florida and recently attended Columbia College Chicago for for Masters in Arts Management with a concentration in Live and Performing Arts. Between academic settings Sadiqua Iman worked as a teaching artist with Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn, and as a Youth Director and advocate with Chattanooga Parks and Recreation, Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, and Carnival Cruise Lines. Most of her current projects deal with race,gender and sexuality, pride and disparities, but she also stands firm behind all social disadvantages in an effort to at some point level the playing field. In 2011 she moved to Chicago and founded Earth Pearl Collective (EPC). Earth Pearl Collective is a queer womyn of color collaborative effort to empower, educate, and promote a queer feminist aesthetic of social activism through the arts. The premier performance, Sharon Bridgforth’s, “Dyke/Warrior-Prayers,” directed by Sadiqua Iman launched EPC’s monthly variety show,"Accept Variety," a networking and community building event that presents talents of local and national queer womyn of color in the form of vendors,performers, and resources. In 2012-13 she directed an all womyn of color cast of Tennessee Williams,"A Streetcar Named Desire," to bring awareness to domestic violence in same sex relationships and co-produced a gender bending interpretation of Romeo and Juliet with Realize Theatre Group to advocate for resources for “at-risk” youth. Outside of her work with Earth Pearl Collective she has performed and co-created “Gloss Over,” with Herstory Theater, “Skyline,” with Misty Deberry, and works as a creative and arts administration consultant for individual artists and emerging arts organizations.

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