Tricia Hersey

Tricia Hersey is an artist, poet, theologian, and community organizer, known as the founder of The Nap Ministry. She is a global pioneer in the movement to understand the liberatory power of rest, creating the Rest is Resistance and Rest as Reparations frameworks. A Chicago native currently living in South Georgia, her work is deeply informed by Black liberation theology, womanism, somatics, and cultural trauma.