Kusum Crimmel is a facilitator of transformational change and generative conflict who invites individuals and communities to expand their capacity for complexity, nuance, and the necessary messiness of growth—within ourselves and across lines of difference. Her facilitation creates space for truth, (re)conciliation, and healing—work that reclaims our shared humanity.

She is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of rape-crisis counseling experience and over fifteen years of training with Generative Somatics, focusing on trauma in the body and pathways to healing from the inside out. This foundation—combined with nearly two decades of experience working with teenagers as a therapist, social worker, conflict transformation facilitator, and leadership teacher—has honed her ability to support individuals and groups through meaningful change and growth. While her LCSW allows her to navigate the mental health system, Kusum’s work is deeply rooted in transformative justice and the depth and complexity it demands. 

Kusum is the founder of Untangling Whiteness, a body of work supporting individuals and organizations committed to dismantling white supremacy and healing from racialized harm and conflict. For more than twenty years, she has worked with white-bodied people to transmute white supremacy both internally and collectively.

Kusum is a queer, white bodied single full time parent to a growing teenager/ young adult and is living on unceded Chochenyo and Muwekma Ohlone land, currently known as San Leandro/ Oakland CA.

Additional specialties include: Conflict Transformation