About Us

Welcome to Liberated Together

We create healing spaces for Women of Color, Queer WOC, non-binary and trans folks to exhale, connect, and reimagine faith and justice work in ways that are life-giving and sustainable.

Too often, we’re expected to rest just enough to keep working. In Christian spaces, harmful theology reinforces this exhaustion. Liberated Together exists to disrupt that cycle. Here, you’ll find space to rest, explore theology rooted in liberation, and build real solidarity across racial and ethnic lines.

Who We Serve

We’re creating what we never had but always needed — and dreaming new ways of being into life.

At Liberated Together, we create spaces for Women of Color, Queer WOC, trans and non-binary folks of color who know what it’s like to navigate predominantly white, patriarchal, and Christian spaces that drain the life out of us.

We’ve been the ones holding it all together — at work, in faith spaces, in movement spaces, in our families — and too often, it’s come at the cost of our own well-being.

We’re creating what we never had but always needed — and dreaming new ways of being into life.

We know what it’s like to:

  • Long for a community where you don’t have to explain yourself — where you can just be.

  • Be deeply committed to justice but unsure how to keep going without burning out.

  • Crave a spiritual path that feels like home — not one that erases your story or demands your silence.

  • Feel the weight of being the strong one, the only one, or the bridge — and ache for a space to exhale, be fully seen, and feel held.

  • Seek real connection, healing community, and a liberating theology that honors your culture, your story, and your divine worth.

  • Want rest, joy, and solidarity that isn’t performative — but rooted, real, and sacred.

You’re not asking for too much.
We’ve been there too — and we’ve created Liberated Together as a place you.

Your Community is waiting for you.

What We Do

Asian American/ Pasifika Cohort

Grown Ass Woman Cohort

6 WEEK COHORTS AND SEMINARS

SPIRITUAL DIRECTION SCHOOL

LIBERATED HEALING COLLECTIVE

IN PERSON RETREATS

  • Grown Ass Woman Cohort #3

  • Year Long Asian American Cohort #1

  • Year Long Asian American/Pasifika #2

  • Grown Ass Woman Cohort #2

  • Badass Indigenous Grandmas at Eloheh

  • Original Grown Ass Woman Cohort

  • Sparkle Squad- 20 Something Leaders

  • Grown Ass Woman Cohort #2

  • Badass Indigenous Grandmas at Eloheh

Our Story

Liberated Together was sparked by a vision: that Women of Color deserve more than survival — we deserve joy, rest, liberation, and belonging.

As I (Erna) moved through church, nonprofit, and justice spaces, I saw WOC giving everything they had. We were holding so much — for our communities, institutions, and families — while burning out in spaces that demanded our labor but never truly saw us. In Christian settings, harmful theology often demanded our silence and sacrifice. I saw us repeatedly end up in spaces that demanded our labor but never made room for our liberation

I knew we needed something different.

Founder Erna Kim Hackett

Since then, we’ve hosted cohorts for Asian American folks, Indigenous Grandmas, Latina leaders in Luchadoras, 20-something changemakers, and even Asian American men interrogating patriarchy. In 2023, we launched a yearlong cohort to go even deeper.

Around the same time, I kept hearing from WOC in my coaching work who were training to become spiritual directors — and being retraumatized in white-centered programs. They were expected to assimilate, then had to retrain themselves just to serve their own communities with integrity.

We knew we could create something better — liberating, life-giving, and rooted in our identities. In 2023, with an incredible team, we launched Liberated Together Spiritual Direction School — a place where healing and transformation go hand in hand. We’re not just training spiritual directors; we’re building a community of healers who lead from wholeness.

We’re creating what we’ve always needed — and dreaming a new way into being, together.

In March 2020, I gathered our first cohort — WOC leaders over 30 — to exhale, connect, and imagine liberating, sustainable ways to live and lead. That retreat happened the weekend before COVID lockdowns began. Everything changed, but the longing for that kind of space only deepened.

By May, the world was on fire. I left my role as Executive Pastor the same week George Floyd was murdered. I posted on Facebook asking if any Asian American women wanted to explore racial justice as our full selves while addressing anti-Blackness in our communities. Over 100 women responded. That post was the spark that turned Liberated Together into a full-time calling.