About Us
Our Story
The Get Free body of work emerged in the summer of 2025, as the natural evolution of Miakoda’s previous work as the founder and director of Fierce Allies, a network founded in 2009 of diverse practitioners advancing equity and justice through relationship-based practices for change.
Both bodies of work were/are catalyzed by the belief that building resilient relationships is the most important investment of resources for individuals and groups advancing ambitious change agendas. Over the years, the Get Free (formerly Fierce Allies) suite of tools and practices have called forth and facilitated radical collaboration in hundreds of teams, coalitions, and organizations, often across seemingly insurmountable divides.
Together, we must care for ourselves and each other, affirm and celebrate one another—laugh, cry, bitch and moan, and dream unreasonable visions, in a symphony of sounds that reverberates throughout the cosmos.
J Miakoda Taylor
Through interim leadership, coaching, consulting, and training, Miakoda has worked with thousands of leaders, teams, coalitions, and organizations, with a primary focus on Black, Indigenous, disabled, and other QTPOC leaders across a wide range of sectors—including food justice, Indigenous lifeways, immigrant rights, education, criminal justice, public health, child and family services, and eco-stewardship. This work is rooted in the lived fabric of communities fighting for liberation – locally, nationally and internationally.
All of Miakoda’s work is catalyzed by the belief that building resilient relationships is the most important investment of resources for individuals and groups advancing ambitious change. Informed by Transformative Justice, somatic trauma healing, and Popular Education, Miakoda supports coalitions, teams, and individuals to build their capacity to be responsive, adaptive, and relationally accountable under pressure, align their work more deeply with their values, engage intersectionally with their communities, and lead liberated lives.
“Working with Miakoda is both grounding and illuminating. They bring joy, courage, presence, and deep care to our conversations, creating an environment where I feel encouraged to show up fully. They listen attentively, asking thoughtful and probing questions and offering authentic insight.”
—Rachel Stievater, Coaching Client
“Miakoda has an amazing gift to see people and relationships with fiercely deep love, compassion, and accountability. I think it is incredibly rare to experience being seen in this way. My deepest growth and healing has been able to happen because of the feedback Miakoda has given me.”
—Camey Yeh, Coaching Client & Collaborator