Richael Faithful, Esq.

(they/them) Co-Vice President of the Board

Richael Faithful is a nationally-known multi/interdisciplinary culture worker, healing strategist, traditional healer, and movement lawyer.

Faithful is deeply rooted in the southern political framework, called healing justice, and Black diasporic healing tradition, known as conjure. Their training as a shamanic practitioner, ceremonial drummer, death doula, and somatic trauma practitioner inform their community care. They have supported thousands in their community healing practice, and hundreds of movement groups in their consulting practice for over a decade. 

Faithful has published in popular media on transformative change, including The Root, HuffPost, RaceBaitR, and Everyday Feminism. They are a writer and editor of Together At The Edge of the World, and contributor to several anthologies: Girls From The South: An Anthology of Southern Queer Womyn’s Voices and Their Allies, Land Justice: Re-Imagining Land, Food, and Commons, Outside the XY: Queer, Black and Brown Masculinity, the Lambda Literary award-winning Black Trans Prayer Book, and Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work & Drug Use, Synergetic Press (2024). 

Faithful teaches about spiritual discernment, conjure traditions, abolitionist-informed conflict navigation skills, and healing-centered interventions. They will attend Starr King School of Ministry starting January 2024. Before their healer initiation, Faithful was a staff attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow in the practice area of clemency and civil rights. Prior to becoming an attorney, Richael was a community organizer trained by Virginia Organizing. 

Faithful is a proud founding Braxton Institute board member.