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Tricia Hersey has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is a Chicago native who has called Atlanta home for 12 years. Tricia is the visionary founder of The Nap Ministry, the originator of the ‘rest as resistance’ and ‘rest as reparations’ frameworks. The Ministry creates sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Tricia’s work is seeded within the soils of black radical thought, Somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology, and is a guide for how to collectively deprogram, decolonize, and unravel ourselves from the wreckage of capitalism and white supremacy.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Eastern Illinois University and a Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Her work has been seen at MOCA Cleveland, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Speed Art Museum, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport and organizations nationwide and internationally. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto (2022), The Nap Ministry’s Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture (2023), and We Will Rest! The Art of Escape (2024). You can learn more about her work at thenapministry.com