This holiday season we encourage you to support the small businesses of our community-based partners. They are an integral part of our initiative and continually guide our work in so many ways. Please help us give back and show thanks for everything they do for PTBi and their own communities.
Dance Classes
Free The Cheeks: Twerk Church
Breezy Powell is a member of our Community Advisory Board and helps run Free the Cheeks, a high energy twerk class designed to empower women. The focus is on creating a safe environment where women reconnect with self, support one another and are free from the social stigmas placed on twerking and women’s bodies. The class focuses on the root and sacral chakras, more specifically, booty & yoni. Women are taught different ways to shake, pop, giggle, gyrate & ASSolate (isolate) the cheeks while simultaneously unlocking the power & magic located within by embracing her sensuality.
Birth Photography
The First Six Weeks
Linda Jones is an inaugural member of our Community Advisory Board and is one of the more senior and widely known Doulas in the East Bay with over 30 years of experience. She is a popular figure in the various maternity wards and highly respected by East Bay midwives, obstetricians and nurses.
Photography is a second love of hers. She truly enjoys documenting journies to motherhood, from third-trimester maternity photos to documenting labor/birth stories and the precious moments following the birth.
Speech, Language and Feeding Services
LaLa Speech
Lucia Lainez is a member of our Community Advisory Board and offers compassionate, personable, and respectful guidance to parents/caregivers with tips and tricks in navigating the most crucial first years of their child’s life. Such tips (@lalaspeechtherapy) include feeding strategies, such as breastfeeding and bottle feeding support for children experiencing challenges, exercises to support muscle coordination for feeding and speech, as well as determining food textures appropriate for each child’s developmental needs. Her goal is to support families in developing confidence and sparking joy as they learn to support their child’s feeding and language needs with playfulness and creativity.
Custom Apparel and Personal Care
Dream Outside Your Ordinary Understanding (D.O. Y.O.U)
Sharayah Alexander is a member of our Benioff Community Innovators Oakland and is the founder of D.o.Y.o.u. LLC, a company she established not only to grow a legacy of generational wealth for her family but to also strengthen and rebuild communities of color.
Organic Hand-Made Sanitizers and Deodorizers
Family Keep Clean Company
Tatianna Fuaau is a member of our Benioff Community Innovators Oakland and founded a mother-daughter enterprise, The Family Keep Clean Company. Family Keep Clean is dedicated to providing organic hand-made sanitizers and deodorizers. Their promise is to help all humans and their pets stay clean, safe and healthy.
Racial Equity Training and Workshops
All Thrive Education
Wendy Martinez Marroquin is a member of our Community Advisory Board and co-founded a company that guides social justice professionals and educators to prevent and heal equity fatigue and secondary trauma, and in the process reconnect with purpose and joy. They also collaborate with yoga studios and healing professionals to de-center white culture and create spaces where students of all racial backgrounds can take refuge and build resilience.
