Meet Your 2023 NextGEN Retreat Leadership Team
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Rev. Audra Nichole | 2023
Rev. Audra Nichole is a phenomenally flawed human and an embodiment of The Divine. She is full of Infinite Love AND some days she feels like she is wearing a bonnet full of bees! Rev. Audra fully understands that this paradoxical nature IS the fullness of life and lives each day as The Best Day Ever!
Originally from San Jose, California, Audra spent most of her adult life in southern california, predominantly in San Diego, She spent a couple years in Denver, CO and Oklahoma City, OK and is excited to see where Spirit guides her to next. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a minor in Spanish from the University of San Diego after spending a semester abroad in Toledo, Spain.
She has spent the last 18+ years helping run businesses as an operations and finance manager, including Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas, CA.
Rev. Audra spent some tie as the Education Director at Vision CSL.
She is currently the operations director at SWAN, a nonprofit that supports and guides organizations and leaders to cultivate safe, diverse, balanced, harmonious and sustainable internal structures and organizational cultures.
Audra is a Licensed New Thought Spiritual Minister and teacher, as well as a Love + Empowerment Coach. She spent over 7 years on the NextGEN Retreat Leadership team. Rev. Audra is currently an Advisor for both NextGEN Retreat and Spirit Uncensored, Inc.
Through her own journey of radically honoring her truth, deeply cultivating her own authentic expression and over fifteen years of unwavering spiritual training and practice she has learned first hand how to live and embody her bliss!
Rev. KC Taylor| 2023
Rev. KC Taylor (they/them, formerly known as Rev. Karen Frost) is the senior minister and co-founder of Spirit Uncensored, described as “a spiritual playground highlighting the value of choice, faith and gratitude.” They also serve as the office administrator of the Centers for Spiritual Living (CSL), a staff minister at United Life CSL and as case manager at Sisu Youth Services in Oklahoma City (OKC). Sisu Youth Services is a low-barrier, LGBT+ affirming youth homeless shelter. Prior to OKC, Rev. Taylor was a TV Creative Executive at JuVee Productions, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s production company in Los Angeles.
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Jessyca Moberg | 2023
Redondo Beach Center for Spiritual Living | Jessyca Moberg was born and raised within the CSL Community formerly known as religious science. Over the years Jessyca has witnessed multiple changes within the CSL Community, and even greater chances have occurred due to the spiritual development and support from this community. At the age of 13 she attended her first teen camp. It was not until after attending camp that she started to fully embrace her individuality and uniqueness. Starting off with becoming more comfortable with her name. Jessyca is often referred to as Jess-Y-ca. Although she has outgrown her teenage years, Jessyca still supports in coming CSL Youth in many ways. She is currently a youth advisor at the Redondo Beach Center for Spiritual Living and co-hosts zoom workshops each Sunday. For the last four years she has attended both in person and online teen camp. Over the last year Jessyca has been part of the Youth and family Resource team to create content and workshops for youth corresponding with CSL’s 2021 global themes.
In addition to her work with youth, Jessyca was one of the co-creators of the 2019 Next Gen meditation retreat that occurs each winter. Starting February of 2021 every third Friday of the month, Jessyca hosts an online zoom workshop for 18-35 year olds. In addition to her involvement with the CSL community Jessyca enjoys to Travel, eat delicious vegan(ish) food and renovate her RV flow. Jessyca intends on continuing to create experiences that cultivate and support spiritual development for all individuals and is eager to be a part of the 2021 Next Gen Summer Retreat team.
Lu is a licensed social worker and has worked in the mental health field on and off for several years. Currently Lu works with transgender adults in a medical system to help folks access gender-affirming care. Lu is interested and committed to helping create systemic changes that will make this world a friendlier place for QTBIPOC folks and others on the margins of society. Lu loves to commune with nature and recognizes the power of Spirit that shows up through hugging a majestic tree, marveling at the sight of a magnificent sunset or sleeping under a starry night sky.
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Elijah Barbee | 2023
Luchan Baker | 2023
Oakland Center for Spiritual Living, Oakland | Luchan Baker III, fondly known as Brother Luchan is a proud Oakland, Ca native. In 2004, at 23 years old, Brother Luchan became the youngest practitioner to obtain their license, which was such an honor. He is the immediate past Director of Youth and Family at Oakland’s Center for Spiritual Living, having served at OCSL for 3+ years.
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Tejash Patel | 2023
Jesse Powers | 2023
With her tumbling vocal stylings, powerhouse melodies, and infectious energy, Jesse Powers seeks to awaken, and entertain those who listen. Her poignant and playful lyricism set atop catchy melodies create a musical skydiving experience—a long lyrical jump into the depths of the human heart softened by a parachute of body-moving instrumentation. Wasting no time, her penetrating and positive songs fly straight to the body and soul. She often shares her music at country-wide spiritual gatherings and in the Unity and Centers for Spiritual Living communities, appearing at the VISTA conference, the CSL Minister’s Conference, SOAR, and the CSL Teen Summer Camp. In addition, she can be found playing at the local venues in her home base of Columbus, Ohio. She is frequently a guest singer with several bands in town, including the famed Columbus Irish group, The Drowsy Lads.
She can be seen singing her solo shows under her name, Jesse Powers, as well as with Jesse Michael Barr under their duo, Jesse + Jesse, and with the local Irish/Americana group, Beir Bua.
Jesse’s songwriting chops have also gained recognition from songwriting contests all over the country. Her song “The Love Song of Everything” was a finalist in the 2021 Great American Song Contest and was nominated for a Positive Music Award in 2022. Her performance of her 2020 lockdown anthem “Alpaca Socks” was a finalist in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for Jazz Vocal Performance. In 2017 Jesse finished in the top four contestants in the Voice For Columbus singing contest, in partnership with the Harmony Project. She had the honor of performing with her fellow finalists and the Harmony Project Choir on the Lincoln Theatre Stage. Her debut album “Begin” was released in November, 2017. Her second full-length album “To Remember” was released in summer 2021. You can stream her music on all platforms: https://
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