Ethics Committee Members
Our ethics committee is a multidisciplinary team composed of yoga students, yoga teachers, physicians, social workers, professors and other well respected members of our community. They are listed here in alphabetical order by first name.
ashton colby
Ashton is an LGBTQ+ civil rights advocate by humanizing narratives in media, public policy, and health care. He is a trauma-sensitive yoga teacher, RYT200, focusing on teaching mindfulness to the transgender community through his social enterprise Gender YOUphoria.
hannah roberts
Hannah Roberts is an Emergency Medicine Physician, a certified personal trainer and wilderness EMT. Dr. Roberts served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy after graduating from the US Naval Academy. Following an honorable discharge, she began pursuing her medical degree.
Hannah is an avid athlete, an ultra-marathoner who has won several 100-mile races and currently enjoys mountain and gravel biking. She found yoga and meditation about ten years ago and regularly incorporates mindfulness practices and kindness into her personal and professional life.
j. eric questel
J. Eric Questel is a Family Medicine Physician and a certified yoga guide. Eric is a wellness practitioner with passion for improving wellness among historically excluded and underserved communities through culturally sensitive and trauma-informed care.
For over 7 years Dr. Questel has been a primary care physician, providing Gender Affirming Care, HIV Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Sexual Health, and LGBTQ primary care. Eric practices medicine at Central Outreach Wellness Center in Columbus, OH, where he works to maintain a holistic view of every individual, incorporating embodied mindfulness-based emotional resilience techniques in both his medical and yoga practices.
jonathan ross
Bio Coming Soon…
kate silver
Bio Coming Soon…
kristy mccray
Kristy McCray, PhD, is a California native transplanted to Ohio. After working in college athletic departments, she served as the executive director of a county-wide rape crisis center in San Luis Obispo, CA. She now teaches at Otterbein University and conducts research on sexual violence prevention in athletics.
Dr. McCray's scholarly focus on marginalized identities in sports includes race, gender and sexual orientation, and socio-economic disparities, and she approaches all of her teaching and research from an anti-racist framework. She has practiced yoga for nearly 15 years, which offsets her love of running long-distance road races.
lara falberg
Lara falberg, LISW, is committed to the constant evaluation and reconsideration of her personal moral barometer and how to consider the needs of others. Lfcounselingservices.com.
priya pramod singh
Priya completed her 200 hour TT in 2017 and 100 hour EMBER™ trauma sensitive yoga teacher training in 2019.
Born and raised in India, yoga has been a part of Priya’s life ever since she was 5 years old. It was her Yoga practice and meditation that helped her transition to USA from India 7 years back.
Her teaching is influenced by Patanjali sutras (The Yoga Sutras contain 196 Sutras, discussing the aims and practice of yoga, the development of yogic powers and finally, liberation.)
She has been teaching cultural appropriation and yoga history and philosophy in 200 hour Yoga teacher trainings in Columbus Ohio. She believes in diverse representations for BIPOC in the yoga world and offers inclusive, accessible yoga classes.
sasha estice
Sasha Estice (she/her) is a student at Brown University studying Environmental Studies on the land, water, and food security track. She is passionate about finding sustainable and equitable solutions to environmental determinants of health.
Sasha was introduced to yoga through her mother who taught yoga, meditation, and energy work for eleven years, and Sasha now enjoys practicing yoga and meditation on her own.
sophia antoun
Sophia Antoun (she/her): Sophia is 200 Hour YTT certified and is the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Education Specialist at The Ohio State University’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. She is committed to kindly and critically engaging in the issues of cultural appropriation, representation, inclusion and equity in yoga spaces and practices.
v. frye
Victoria has over 30+ years serving as a Compliance and Ethics Officer for large State, City and Federal agencies that serve populations who are our most vulnerable and underrepresented.
She is also 500hr Certified yoga guide with 20 years experience leading populations who are most vulnerable, underrepresented and underserved.
