Who We Are
Willa Conway
Willa Conway is the Founder of Rupture and Repair. She comes from a lineage of fierce women – white settler colonial capitalists, writers, artists, addicts, mystics, truth tellers, humans who have harmed and been harmed. Willa is a co-founder of The Weavers Project, a multidisciplinary feminist organization that bridges arts and culture, movement building, and resource mobilization. Willa serves on the board of Solidaire Network and has developed and facilitated campaigns and donor education programs with Solidaire Network, Resource Generation and Shakti Rising that hold feminism, intersectionality, transformation and sustainable leadership development at the center. Willa believes that it’s hard to move anything into action without experiencing it in the body as well as the mind and strives to create work that creates that integration. Willa is a graduate of the Shakti Rising Apprenticeship program, a certified Level 1 and 2 Movement for Trauma Practitioner. Writing, dancing, and being in self study on all things movement, art, and liberation are just some of the ways that she tries to make world-building and liberation daily practices.
Facilitation and Coaching Team
Ada McMahon
Ada McMahon is a documentary filmmaker and collective healing practitioner. She's passionate about relational, contemplative, and somatic practices that open up possibilities for healing and liberation, particularly around the wounds of white supremacy and patriarchy. Ada co-directed the documentary film This Little Light, a self-determined portrait about the power of love, community, and the living legacy of the Black Southern Freedom movement, in partnership with her friend Wendi Moore-O'Neal. The film has screened at festivals, conferences, churches and gatherings nationwide as a tool to invite people and groups to deepen their freedom walk. In her filmmaking, her group facilitation, and through one-on-one coaching, Ada invites loving and curious witnessing where there is othering, polarization, and denial. She holds a bachelor's degree in Social Studies from Harvard University, an MFA in filmmaking from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and has trained in (or is currently studying) trauma healing, group facilitation, conflict mediation, somatics, and contemplative spirituality through the Academy of Inner Science, the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and the Embody Lab. A queer white woman who grew up with inherited wealth, Ada was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
