Weeks before, in response to the leaked decision, Resonance Network hosted ‘We Are Our Own Medicine,’ a gathering grounded in community, storytelling, and ancestral wisdom. Alongside Black and Indigenous healers of various traditions, we came together knowing what our ancestors have known for generations: the state cannot guarantee our safety — it never has.
Doris Dupuy
Co-Director
Doris “Haitian born, Brooklyn raised” Dupuy is a lifelong pessimist, turned optimist, turned futurist.
Her vocational life has always been a practice of worldbuilding — though, she didn’t always call it that. Before her time at Resonance, Doris led child development and education programs, a passion which began after witnessing the stark education inequality in her native Haiti, and vowing to change it. She has also taught math to young people, and supported DC residents and families experiencing homelessness secure stable housing.
Since 2018, Doris’s role at Resonance has been a mix of finance, administration, human resources, and management. Today, her co-leadership of the network is shaped by her experience: “When I was working with children and families experiencing homelessness in DC, I felt the urgency of what I now call worldbuilding. When I came to Resonance, I experienced worldview work, and radical imagination through storytelling — and for the first time, I felt like transformation might actually be within reach.”
In short, she says, “Resonance has taught me a thriving future is possible. And we all have a role in creating it.”
On most days, you can find Doris caretaking for the people and beings in her life, trying to get right with her body, and re-learning love. (She/her)
Alexis Flanagan
Co-Director
Alexis (she/her) is a queer Black feminist DC girl whose heart pumps to the beat of “the Pocket” that holds down DC go-go music and culture. She is a cultural worker, writer, artist, healer, and organizer working at the intersection of art and activism in the DC Metropolitan Area.
Alexis has led programs and organizations working to end sexual and intimate partner violence for more than a decade, most recently serving 5 years as the Assistant Director of HopeWorks, a comprehensive sexual assault and domestic violence program in Columbia, MD. Now, Alexis dedicates herself to deepening practice and embodiment of liberation and transformation within communities she loves. Alexis was a Movement Maker in NoVo Foundation’s Move to End Violence Program and is enjoying her current evolution as the bass line of the jazz ensemble that is the Resonance Network staff team.
