Charity Sonia is a Black artist, doula, and racial justice community foundation staffer. She grew up mostly in Dekalb County, Georgia and graduated from Dekalb School of the Arts focused on visual arts and drama. Painting, writing, and cultivating healing care through art have been sacred medicine throughout Charity’s life. She has a Bachelor’s in Women, Gender Studies and Global Justice from Colgate University. Charity has studied, lived, and worked across Turtle Island (USA), Egypt, South Africa, and Costa Rica as a community organizer and human rights non-profit staffer.

Grow & Glow began in 2019 after Charity joined Corner Stone’s Full Spectrum Doula & Advocacy training cohort, and fell in love with being a steward for beloved community through reproductive justice, healing justice, and grief care-work. That year, she also experienced severe health challenges that required short term disability leave from work. She became a life learner of disability justice, and felt called to support others with disabilities navigating life shifts. Charity is passionate about showing up for BIPOC disabled individuals and families in celebrations of life and death related to births, weddings, dream manifesting, and grief care.

Currently Charity is living on unceded Lisjan & Muwekma Ohlone Native lands in Oakland, California and working at San Francisco Foundation on Community Impact’s People Team. She is focused on painting a 7 part ancestral healing art installation, practicing mutual aid in community, and learning about Restorative Economics at Lift Economy’s Next Economy MBA and studying plant medicine with Hood Herbalism. Charity loves connecting with folks, and is passionate about helping folks on a path that ignites their soul to glow! Whether that path is birthing a baby, marrying the love of your life, manifesting a dream project, or applying for a grant… Charity is ready to join your grow & glow journey!