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Jodie London Knowles is a trauma-informed educator, certified peer support specialist, strategic intervention coach, and interdisciplinary artist who brings bold clarity, creative intelligence, and lived experience into spaces that demand real change. With over 20 years as a teaching artist and community educator, Jodie works at the intersection of healing, learning, and social systems—where individual recovery and collective responsibility meet.

As the founder of The Luminous Minds Project, Jodie leads peer-driven, trauma-informed programs that blend research, art-based education, nervous system literacy, and cultural insight to challenge outdated models of care. Their work centers those impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), complex trauma (CPTSD), invisible neuro differences, and systemic neglect—offering practical tools that move people beyond survival and into agency, connection, and emotional freedom.

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Jodie is a long-time advocate for students and adults with trauma histories, asserting that those impacted by adversity do not need special education—they need specific education. Education that is humanistic, arts-based, culturally responsive, emotionally literate, and creatively liberating. Education that restores what trauma disrupts: trust, curiosity, learning capacity, and dignity.

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Rooted in Buddhist humanism and trauma-informed practice, Jodie’s approach is direct, compassionate, and deeply practical. They do not simply name harm—they guide individuals, educators, and communities in building cultures of care that are adaptive, humane, and alive. Through a radical yet grounded framework they call human revolution, Jodie teaches how art, culture, and common-sense practices can help recover the brain from adverse lived experiences and liberate the mind and voice.

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A queer, femme-non-binary, neurodivergent, immigrant artist, Jodie brings both professional training and lived insight into their work as a fierce brain health advocate and activist for social and emotional change across mental health, education, and traditional recovery communities. They challenge institutions and those who serve them to rethink mental health, neurodiversity, and addiction recovery through a humanistic lens—putting the human back into humanism, for dignity’s sake.

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Jodie believes healing is a collective act, and that true intelligence includes emotional generosity, rigorous honesty, and common decency. Expanding our minds with heart, they believe, is essential to the future of education, wellness, and community well-being.