We Still Move, formerly Critical Mass Dance Company, cultivates Well-being, Resilience, and Joy through Movement and the Healing Arts.
Our Trauma-informed Work is by and for Women, Gender-expansive and 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals from Black, Indigenous and Communities of Color.
Our offerings celebrate both Ancestral Wisdom and emergent practices, creating embodied spaces to reconnect with ourselves and each other.
Iraheta, Johanna
Johanna is deeply committed to encouraging healing in harmony with nature and collectivity across diverse cultures and life experiences. As a collaborator behind We Still Move public programs, Johanna advocates for inclusion and the preservation of marginalized communities' intellect, identity, and ancestral wisdom.
Through mediums such as art, movement, dance, theater, and storytelling, she dedicates herself to crafting immersive experiences that empower generations, promote healing, and fortify community resilience.
With a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Southern California, a B.A. in Central American Studies from California State Northridge, and 18 years of grassroots organizing, Johanna brings a rich blend of academic knowledge and community inspired expertise to her work.
Johanna Iraheta (she/her)
Director of Community Events
Kozak, Sophia
Sophia is the founding director of We Still Move (formerly CMDC) and creator of Dance from the Heart, a healing movement practice taught at the organization. She started out as a dancer and build a career as a community organizer working in educational justice and immigrant rights. After experiencing a period of intense burnout, Sophia embarked on her own healing journey to reconnect with herself and her Cuban culture using energy medicine and dance, especially salsa. This was deeply healing for her body and spirit and led her to develop her own business called Human Spirit Ascending for 10 years, where she offered reiki, coaching, counseling and collective care workshops.
In 2010, Sophia felt a deep calling to create a space where other women and nonbinary individuals could heal and embody change through movement. She blended her passions for dance, energy healing and social justice to develop Dance from the Heart and create We Still Move (formerly known as Critical Mass Dance Company (CMDC)) with a multi-racial collective of healers and organizers as a space for community care and social change through dance. Sophia has Masters degrees in Spiritual Psychology and Nonprofit Management.
Elena Sophia Kozak (she/ella)
Executive Director
Agunos, Misha
As a long-time social dancer, performer, dance instructor, and pole dancer, Misha is grounded and guided by the following question: “how can our spaces of connection, leisure, and pleasure cultivate day-to-day practices that orient towards collective liberation within ourselves, our communities, and the world at large?"
Misha aims to help folks feel more like themselves through trauma-informed embodiment spaces where people can bring offerings of rest, restoration, and reclamation to the altars of mind, body, and spirit.
Misha leads communications, administration and operations. She guides outreach, marketing and social media, as well as offers project management / logistical support. This is informed by her experiences in recovering from academia and navigating the world as a Black, queer, Filipina neuroexpansive* chronically ill survivor.
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Misha Agunos (she/her)
Communications and Curriculum Consultant
