About Us
Understanding
&
Connection
Jenny Lee
Founder & Director
Jenny Lee is a musician, healing artist, cultural architect, and the Founder and Executive Director of Cultures of Belonging. Her work explores belonging as both an inner reality and a living social practice, bringing people back into relationship with themselves, each other, and the places they inhabit.
In Cascadia in the Pacific Northwest, Jenny spent 5 years developing Temple of Belonging, the most impactful bioregional women’s gatherings on the West Coast. Engaging hundreds of participants each year, Temple became a living environment for healing, leadership, education, cultural practice, and deep relational restoration. This work formed a real world prototype for how communities can organize around care, culture, and place, establishing the foundation for what would become the nonprofit, Cultures of Belonging.
Jenny is also the founder of The Sacred Wholeness, her integrative coaching and psycho-spiritual practice, where she guides individuals through processes of truth, embodiment, and reclamation. Rooted in breathwork, somatic inquiry, music, and cultural insight, her work bridges personal healing with the broader task of becoming fully human in a fractured world.
In 2026, Jenny established Cultures of Belonging to expand this vision into a nonprofit framework dedicated to building bioregional networks that strengthen social resilience, cultural integrity, and place-based belonging across communities.
Beyond her robust experiential background, Jenny operates from equal footing academically. Jenny studied at the Othering and Belonging Institute at University of California, Berkeley, deepening her understanding of the social, cultural, and structural conditions that shape connection and separation. This perspective informs her ability to translate complex frameworks for belonging into grounded, participatory environments.
Alongside her leadership and facilitation work, Jenny is an accomplished musician whose artistry reflects the same devotion to truth, beauty, and emotional depth that defines her broader body of work. Across every dimension of her practice, Jenny is committed to restoring the conditions for wholeness, courage, and authentic belonging in both individual lives and collective culture.
Our Board of Directors
Alyx Somas
Alyx Somas is a 2S Native North American Culture Tender, re-indigenization practitioner, and collective liberationist guiding communities to restore relationship with lineage, land, and kinship-based ways of living. Rooted in intergenerational belonging and years of work in decolonial practice, somatic healing, and ancestral connection, they are the founder of The Collectivity Project and Poets for Liberation, and a core organizer and council member across multiple community initiatives. Their work centers pan-cultural interdependence and relational world-building, offering pathways for healing, grief work, and collective restoration in response to cultural and ecological fragmentation.
Dajé Alōh
Daje Aloh is an advisor, consultant, and vision midwife for wild-hearted creators and entrepreneurs. As an Afro-Indigenous, Memphis-born, Appalachian-cured storyteller, story doula, and eco-somatic depth guide; Daje Aloh supports seekers, lovers, crafters, and kin in finding and singing the deep song of their lives. She does this in several domains: entrepreneurship, creative rites of passage, and musings on mythopoiesis, culturework, and leadership. She is the founder of Storywork Studio: An Institute of Visionary Praxis and the Midwives Studio: A Ritual Design and Concept Studio.
❋ BELONGING IS FOR EVERYONE
❋ BELONGING IS FOR EVERYONE
