Lenéa Sims is a journalist and community psychologist bringing 10+ years of experience in community engagement and marketing to the media landscape. Lenéa is committed to working with communities to produce rigorously-reported stories and initiatives that foster civic engagement and social change. As a reporter, she is focused on solutions-based stories at the intersection of health and culture, especially ones that illuminate non-Western approaches to wellbeing and healing.

Lenéa is currently pursuing a Masters in Journalism at UC Berkeley where she was awarded a Jubilee Fellowship and is studying audio journalism. Lenéa is also a PhD candidate in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies at Pacifica Graduate Institute where her research focuses on fostering civic engagement through the development of third spaces and collaboratively-created media projects. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology & Art History with a Minor in Communications and Media Studies from Tufts University.

As a consultant, Lenéa has supported dozens of entrepreneurs, nonprofits, grassroots organizations, and for-profit businesses in developing programs, events, content, communications, and campaigns that foster connection, increase access to resources, and/or promote social change. Clients include MTV, Scholastic, National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Armory Center for the Arts, and more. Her work and insights have been featured in Essence, PAPER, Well + Good, It's Nice That, and won an award from Communication Arts.

Born and raised in Altadena, Lenéa currently lives in Berkeley with her dog, Butter and cats, Carrot and Potato.