Rev. JaQuan Beachem (he/they) is an RYT 200-hour certified yoga instructor, reiki healer, and sound healing trained facilitator. Rev. JaQuan Beachem is the associate dean and director of Community Development and Spiritual Formation at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. Now, as a PhD candidate, their focus is on ethical and decolonial pedagogies, policies, practices of care, thriving, and wholeness in (higher) education. As the founder of wellness non-profit KEI, Inc., JaQuan consults and curates sustainable spaces for authenticity, embodiment, play, and (re)imagination at the individual, organizational, and corporate levels. They are a love-centered, joy-seeking, and justice-oriented interdisciplinary artist and scholar. In his leisure, JaQuan enjoys jamming out to music, trying out a new recipe, and noticing things bloom.