We are...
changemakers, creatives, circle holders —
— wholehearted justice seekers, empathic entrepreneurs, visionaries, risk-takers, and meaning-makers.
We show up daily to an altar of artistic expression, spreading healing and hope, perched on our learning-edge, committed to a world we know can be. We perform quiet revolutions (growing louder daily) to affirm the capacity of human potential, the vitality of community, the power of collaboration.
Often, we are the bridge between possibility and dreams made manifest.
So we sing out. We show up. We let ourselves be seen.
Because your success is my success is her success is the only way. We redefine what it means to rise.
Now more than ever the world needs our light. This is our time.
ABOUT ME
I’m Anya. (She/They).
Leadership Mentor. Seasoned Facilitator. Creative Copywriter. Idea Doula & Catalyst.
It is my deep joy to partner with you to actualize and amplify your vital offerings — with tools and support that yield tangible action around your words, your work, and your way in the world.
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We heal and grow in community.
Though I am kind of shy and identify as an introvert, my spirit comes alive when I gather in community. I have been leading and guiding groups for the last 20+ years and have designed and delivered original workshops, retreats, and courses for non-profit organizations, companies large and small, colleges and universities, high school students across the country, creative entrepreneurs, and diverse changemakers. Since 2018, I have facilitated vital learning cohorts for dozens of visionary leaders through my signature Catalyst Leadership Immersion.
We are the leaders we’ve been looking for — huemxn, imperfect, ever-evolving.
As a leadership mentor & consultant for the last two decades, I have worked in generative 1:1 partnership with an international network of clients, often serving as mentor to mentors, leader to leaders, primarily partnering with women and non-binary changemakers and entrepreneurs committed to catalyzing their justice-rooted work in the world in soulful, sustainable, and deeply impactful ways.
Our language is a powerful tool — a spell, a portal, an invitation — a roadmap to our core truth & our reimagined future.
As a word-weaver and copywriter, I support individuals and organizations to find their way with words — uplifting their values, clarifying their missions, and creating compelling content that speaks directly to their people and inspires them to engage. I’ve written justice-rooted website content, crafted resonant bios and meaningful sales pages, composed e-course copy, edited best-selling books; and co-created culture-shifting, liberatory language that unhooks from manipulative marketing tactics and leads the way forward.
I’m in a perpetual practice of self-discovery, learning and unlearning alongside you.
I earned my bachelor’s degree in Educational Pedagogy (2002) and have a master’s degree in Conflict Resolution (2010). I am trained in mediation and hold a Certification in Facilitation from PYE-Global. Additionally, I studied with the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, the Center for Courage & Renewal, the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance (AORTA), and am engaged with Resmaa Menakem’s Somatic Abolitionism through Education for Racial Equity. I know that we are all simultaneously students and teachers — and the spaces I convene honor collective wisdom and co-creation.
Who we are informs how we lead.
My practice is rooted in a core framework of justice, reciprocity, engagement, and creativity — and I weave these values into how I create and facilitate my offerings and how I show up for our work.
I am a white, cis, queer, (currently) able-bodied, pro-Palestinian-liberation Jewish woman navigating a variety of chronic health conditions. I’m an imperfect vessel, a Virgo, a devoted Auntie (well, “Aunta”), an empath. Raised on land with other families who became kindred, I am perpetually seeking a return to the lovingly intertwined, deeply supportive expression of community that I know will nurture us in these turbulent times. Right now, that looks like tending to beloved, soul-level friendships, practicing embodied mutual care, unhooking from capitalism while still supporting collective thriving, and finding tangible ways to actualize a liberatory future.
I live in Portland, Oregon, on the stolen ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Clackamas, and Tualatin Kalapuya people — home to over 40,000 Indigenous folks today. To align my recognition more closely with action, I redistribute a percentage of proceeds from all of my offerings to the Native American Youth and Family Association. I continue to build relationships with local indigenous folks and be responsive to requests & invitations emerging from these communities.
I so look forward to knowing you…
ABOUT AHC
I established Anya Hankin Collaborative in 2011, with the desire to help you find your voice amidst the fray and root into your purpose-driven work. While my offerings have evolved throughout the years, my values have stayed consistent.
I believe that our stories are vital — that when we feel seen, heard and recognized we are better able to be of service.
To this end, I help people hone their facilitation skills, develop their unique leadership style, and create and share their signature offerings — so that they can expand and deepen their ripples of impact and live into the change they seek.
Core to all I offer through AHC is the notion of creative resilience — the understanding that in order to show up for our work we must also show up for ourselves. To this end, radical tending and intentional practices of renewal are woven into everything I share.
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I believe that this work is essential, valuable, and transformative. In an effort to make my services accessible, I am always working with at least one pro-bono client. I offer equity pricing tiers for my offerings and welcome payment plans at either no extra charge or an extremely nominal fee.
The income generated from my work is cycled back into the community with intention and a clear justice lens.
Wherever possible, I purchase products, services, and support — to run and nurture my offerings — from independent BIPOC, queer, and women-owned businesses in Portland and nationwide. I aim to use systems and software that are made or owned by women and BIPOC. I draw from the amazing resources within my Catalyst Cohort + Holding Space communities and often hire or pay for services and products from these current and former clients. Additionally, the process we engage in together ((especially through the Catalyst Leadership Immersion)) supports my clients to rise into leadership, to live and work in right-relationship, to make money doing work that stirs their souls and contributes to their communities — and those ripples of impact are an essential aspect of my justice lens and deep motivation for my work.
It is my practice to redistribute funds throughout the year to organizations run by and for people with non-dominant identities committed to on-the-ground justice work. In addition to supporting the Native American Youth and Family Association, Anya Hankin Collaborative also directly supports Love & Justice in the Streets, Transgender Law Center, National Bail Out; and numerous BIPOC artists, writers, and organizers via monthly Patreon contributions. I’m also committed to responding to additional funding requests throughout the year.
As my business grows, my ability to redistribute money grows. Being able to support justice-rooted work — energetically, tangibly, financially — that contributes to right-relationship, uplifts leaders and entrepreneurs holding non-dominant identities, and also moves away from capitalism and towards collective care, is a primary catalyst for my work in the world.
WHY “COLLABORATIVE”?
You and me, we’re partners in this.
Yeah, you're basically a one-huemxn show, but that doesn't mean you have to do it alone. I know that we’re stronger together.
I fully believe that "your liberation is bound up with mine." (Lilla Watson)
"Collaborative" evokes our shared commitment to justice and to living and working with purpose. It also speaks to the core of my philosophy around facilitation and space-holding — it's the give-and-take, the mutuality of the experience, and the alchemy of unique people coming together with shared goals.
GRATITUDE
Phoenix Rose Designs created this beautiful online platform. SixteenJuly designed my logo. Original photos are from the amazing She Saw Things, Amy McMullen, Jennifer Alyse, and Danielle Cohen. All content is original. xo