Mx. Erika is a licensed mental health counselor and expressive arts therapist with more than two decades of experience. They specialize in clinical work with adults and children who are queer, disabled, autistic, neurodivergent, and every combination of the above. She is a frequent expert witness and evaluator in family regulation system cases with a focus on family preservation and family autonomy. They became active in homeschooling upon recognizing that the public schools were not willing to provide much more than babysitting to their child with complex needs, and are a consultant and advocate for creative, flexible, robust, and responsible homeschooling.

Mx. Erika created the precursor to Alphabet Alliance in 2019, after teaching music and humanities courses on an inclusive homeschool platform and noticing that there were a number of gendered discussion and social spaces on the platform, but no spaces specifically for trans or nonbinary youth, and only a handful of offerings about queer history and culture. She has since hosted more than 2000 youths in her child, tween, and teen LGBTQ rainbow clubs and teen hangouts on Outschool and elsewhere, and has begun a support group for neurodivergent queer young adults as well.

Morgan is a teacher, writer and editor, and professional panelist/moderator for comic cons and fandom conventions in the Southeastern US. She has 25 years of experience as a writer and editor, and 15+ years as an educator in secular homeschool/co-op, traditional classroom, and virtual classroom settings. She has a BA in English, a MA in Professional Writing, and a professional certificate in DEIB. She also writes, edits, and publishes tabletop roleplaying games. 

Morgan’s work sits at the intersection between LGBTQIA+ identity, neurodiversity, and fandom. She has a personal stake in these communities as both a member and a parent/mentor/teacher. Popular media and culture, which includes fandom spaces like conventions, cosplay, and fanfiction, provide a window into social issues and a means of engaging with and understanding the world. She is a professional furry wrangler and collects apocalypses. 

Along with Morgan’s academic and social activities, she also professionally DMs for several non-D&D game systems, including Powered by the Apocalypse, Kids on Bikes, the Cypher System, Chill 3rd edition, and the Warriors Adventure Game. Her speciality is running dynamic and meaningful games for players as young as eight. 

Makiah is a full-time university student, homeschool graduate, and alum of a prestigious pre-college classical conservatory program on cello. 

They are a queer, autistic, visually impaired, multiply disabled Black person with short stature. They provide accessibility and inclusion trainings based on their lived experiences navigating organizations whose practices have ranged from universal full accessibility to refusal to make basic accommodations and everything in between. Makiah is currently engaged in coursework including Disability Studies, Queer Studies, and Race Studies with the goal of learning how to better advocate for the next generations of marginalized youth.

Makiah believes in inclusivity that doesn’t parade marginalized people around like collectible Pokémon cards, but applies feedback given from people with lived experience on how to fully include and affirm all of who they are. 

Ms. Molly is a queer, neurodivergent teacher of violin and viola lessons, both classical and fiddle, as well as other musical topics and humanities subjects. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in music and English and has completed graduate coursework in music. Ms. Molly has taught strings for more than 25 years, both individual and group lessons, in a variety of settings, including private music schools, summer camps, urban public schools, in students' homes, and on Outschool. Her teaching style incorporates Suzuki music education principles while remaining flexible to the student's needs. She has experience parenting and homeschooling children from a neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed approach. She believes that the arts are a fundamental part of education, that learning occurs best in an atmosphere of mutual respect between student and teacher, and that we all learn from one another all the time. 

Ms. Molly has taught group violin lessons in the Boston Public Schools for over ten years. She is currently participating in a year-long Creative Youth Development Fellowship and was a member of the first cohort of the Music Educators and Teaching Arts Fellowship, both sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has also participated in trainings through Boston Conservatory/Berklee School of Music about teaching students with high support needs. 

In addition to her musical endeavors, Ms. Molly has taught nature classes to preschoolers at a day camp, writing and theatre to tweens and teens at a wizarding camp, and various online arts classes.