Our Team
We are a collective of educators, activists, and researchers working to forward an accurate, developmentally appropriate, creative sexuality and gender curriculum that is affirming and inclusive.
Mira Weil
MPH, DTM
Mira is a Doctor of Tibetan Medicine, Certified Sexual Health Educator, and lead author of LETS! original program: Teach, Affirm, Learn, Know (T.A.L.K.) curriculum. She is a queer non-binary femme, current doctoral candidate and Spaulding-Smith Fellow in Community Health Education at UMass, Amherst. She lives on occupied Nonotuck land where she hikes, plays, and maintains a private practice as a doctor of Tibetan medicine. Mira also teaches workshops for adults about all kinds of sexual health-related topics.
Anne Louise Burdett
Anne Louise Burdett is a farmer of medicinal flowers, and herbs. She is a trained clinical herbalist with an expansive apothecary and primary care practice. She specializes in sexual and reproductive health, trauma, chronic illness and emergency medical care. She is a certified sex educator, a dancer, and a teacher. Anne Louise is a co-author of the LETS’ curriculum: Teach, Affirm, Learn, Know (T.A.L.K.). She is the CEO of TOCA, a sexuality and sexual health products business. Anne Louise believes wholeheartedly in being true to oneself, acting from desire, and in individual wellness being essentially and always tied to collective wellness.
Aiyana Masla
Aiyana Masla is an interdisciplinary artist and anti-bias educator. A painter, poet, musician, songwriter, storyteller, and physical theatre artist, her artistic work is dedicated to dignifying the senses, the body, nature, queer eroticism, and emotion. Aiyana is a co-author and co-illustrator of LETS’ original curriculum, Teach, Affirm, Learn, Know (T.A.L.K.). She is a certified sex educator and currently an associate with ALMA partners consulting, co-leading trainings, writing, and working with schools to align ideals and values with actions and curriculum. She believes in honoring the value of diversity, cross-cultural exchange, and intersectionality, passionate about exploring difference and belonging through education. Aiyana is also a picture book maker and storyteller with SisterStrories. She currently lives on occupied Lenape land, Lenapehoking, known colonially as New York City.
Aneliese L. Apala Flaherty
MPH
Aneliese L. Apala Flaherty is a co-author and co-illustrator to the LETS’ original program: Teach, Affirm, Learn, Know (T.A.L.K.) curriculum and is actively engaged in planning the implementation & evaluation of the program. She is also a project manager and researcher for a tribal health organization in Alaska focused on universal-level suicide prevention, a trained group facilitator, and a jack-of-all-trades. Aneliese has facilitated LGBTQ youth groups and was formerly a bioanalytical chemist. Her current work centers around mental wellness, decolonizing education, and suicide prevention at the community level. Aneliese, her spouse, and their canine companion live in the occupied pre-removal lands of the Osage, Kaw (Kansa), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) Nations. Originally from Oklahoma, she grew up just outside of the post-removal lands of her people with her Chickasaw father and Thai mother.
Aline Gubrium
MA, PhD
Aline Gubrium is an anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has extensive experience using innovative and collaborative research methods, including narrative and arts-based approaches. Aline is a trained and experienced facilitator of digital storytelling workshops and uses the process in her public health research, intervention, and advocacy work. She is a co-author of the LETS’ curriculum: Teach, Affirm, Learn, Know (T.A.L.K.) and has been actively engaged in the approval and evaluation process in a public elementary school setting. Aline’s sexuality education research and program development work is firmly rooted in culture-centered and reproductive justice perspectives.