devon de Leña (she/her)

is an award-winning filmmaker, leadership coach, community facilitator, and embodiment practitioner born and raised in unceded occupied Duwamish Territory (Seattle).  For over fifteen years, devon has been working with individuals and collectives at the intersection of social justice, movement building, and cultural change work. devon is centered around a commitment to deep and sustaining cultural transformation. 

devon got her start in community facilitation as an anti-sexual assault and domestic violence educator at Western Washington University.  She went on to build power and ignite action alongside young people through her work at Village Volunteers: Youth Outreach Mentors in Kenya, Powerful Voices - where she became a co-founder of the youth-led Girlvolution Conference - and ArtsCorps where she helped center the voices of young artists as the Program Manager of Youth Speaks Seattle. devon has consulted with over 25+ organizations to help bring strategy, alignment, and meaningful collaboration to their work.

Since 2009, devon has studied politicized embodied healing with generative somatics, Strozzi Institute, Survival Arts Academy, Kapwa Fitness, and currently The Embodiment Institute. devon utilizes this lineage to support movement organizers to heal from trauma and oppression, build mutual connection, and deepen trust for themselves and their community.

In 2017 devon became an award-winning film director for her first film Battle Grounds: the hard hits of female poppers. The film won the “Emerging Filmmaker Award” at the APA D.C. Film Festival, Best Shorts Festival and was officially selected for Seattle Asian American Film Festival, San Fransisco Dance Film Festival, Mixed Remixed Festival, La Femme International Film Festiva, and Chi-Town Film Festival. She is a freelance producer for the Seattle Channel and is currently enrolled in the Sundance Institute Co//ab.

At the moment, you can find devon creating media and offerings as a Program Coordinator of The Embodiment Institute, co-producing the iMPACT LENS: Hilltopia Narrative Justice Film Fellowship in Tacoma Washington, and co-producing the Finding Our Way podcast with Prentis Hemphill.