Aishah Shahidah Simmons is a Black feminist lesbian survivor-healer, Theravadin Buddhist, and trauma-informed mindfulness meditation teacher. She has been studying and practicing vipassana meditation since 2002, and has more than one year of cumulative silent retreat practice in the United States and India. Her primary dharma teachers are Tuere Sala and DaRa Williams. Aishah is also an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, author, and lecturer whose award-winning works, NO! The Rape Documentary and Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, break silences, offer healing paths for trauma, and explore ways to disrupt the inhumane sexual violence epidemic humanely.