Schekeva Hall, Ph.D., CGP, CPT is a New York State licensed psychologist, antiracist culture advocate, lifestyle wellness coach, and a certified personal trainer, who specializes in health and wellness. She believes optimal health is integrative and intentionally uses mental, physical, and social aspects of health, including important cultural learning from one’s race, ethnicity, and gender, to assist clients with leveraging self-awareness, confidence, and connectedness with “self” and others. Dr. Hall partners with Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training experiences that foster a community approach to both learning and healing. Her trainings help participants connect with others and their surroundings to support their mental clarity, compassion, and self-actualization. Dr. Hall has practiced clinically for over 15 years, in education, community mental health, interdisciplinary medicine, mental health start-ups, and private practice. In these spaces, she has taught, trained and supervised students and staff on racial and cultural learning as an integral part of clinical theory for work with clients. She currently contributes culturally, clinically and socially relevant news to various media resources including, Vice Media, Refinary29, The New York Times, etc. Dr. Hall received her doctorate training in counseling and clinical psychology at Columbia University, her group psychotherapy certification (CGP), from American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), and her personal training certification from the National Association of Sport Medicine (NASM-CPT).