About

Autumn Leonard MFA, Equity Program Specialist

Autumn Leonard (she/they) inherited a love of equality from her parents who braved laws against interracial marriage and got legally hitched in 1960. Her love of storytelling began when she was eight years old and accidentally stumbled into a stage debut at the Edinburgh Fringe. That combination of justice and story has infused her work ever since. 

Autumn has been leading racial and social justice workshops since 2001. A mother of two, she believes avidly in the importance of play in education, that liberation begins in our bodies, and that you're never too young or too old to start talking and taking action about race! You can find Autumn infusing playfulness into her anti-oppression curriculum with Equity Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative, doing handstands whenever she needs a new perspective on a problem or leading workshops for parents and kids about race, using yoga and mindfulness via Body Get Free.

A former chair of the Race Task Force at Kolot Chayeinu and previous Kolot K'tanim early childhood teacher, Autumn is an inaugural member of the Jewish Women of Color Resilience Circle, an Elder member of the Jew of Color Caucus at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and a founding member of the Black Jewish Liberation Collective. 

Autumn is a RYT 500 yoga teacher who graduated with a BA in Theater Studies at Yale and holds an MFA in Film from UT Austin. Autumn is an anti-racism trainer and facilitator with Body Get Free, the founder of Angry Momma Yoga and currently is the Lead Organizer at the Black Jewish Liberation Collective.