COYOTE Staff
Bella Robinson
Bella Robinson, Executive Director (2009-2025) is the founder and executive director of Coyote RI. She has worked in the sex industry for over 40 years, and she is dedicated to supporting policies that promote the health and safety of sex workers and trafficking survivors. Bella is a previously incarcerated person who was a victim of state-sponsored violence. Contact: <Bella@coyoteri.org> (401) 525-8757
Lindsey Berry
Lindsey Berry
Health and Safety Education Specialist
Contact: lberrycoyoteri@gmail.com
Debra Harris
COYOTE CLOSET Outreach Coordinator
Debra Harris is the Outreach & Event Coordinator at Direct Action for Rights & equality ( DARE). We are thrilled to bring Debra aboard as COYOTE’s new Outreach Coordinator. (2024)
LaResse Harvey
Program Manager, Sister2Sister
Ms. Harvey is one of eight 2020 Connecticut Hall of Change Inductees recognizing here 20 plus years of successful reentry and her contributions to Connecticut becoming a Second Chance state. Currently, Ms. Harvey is the founder and board chair of Once INCarcerated Anonymous a CT-based nonprofit working to End Justice Impacted Homelessness. LaResse Harvey has five college degrees, including a bachelor’s in social work. Ms. Harvey is a certified behavior specialist and has developed over fifty successful programs for women and girls over the past two decades. LaResse is the program manager of COYOTERI’s “Sister 2 Sister” a weekly online support group for Formerly Incarcerated Women.
Lindsay Hoffman
Lindsay is COYOTEs Check-in Culture Coordinator
Ramona Flour
PR and Social Media Coordinator
Ramona Flour is a queer 29-year-old, second-generation sex worker living and working in NYC. She got her toes wet in the sex industry by entering into live webcams & independent porn production and has since gone on to manage some of the highest-ranking (traffic-wise) adult webcam platforms in modern existence. In her free time, she enjoys community building, activism, wildlife conservation as well as food & wine. She has a passion for trauma-informed herbalism and creating visual-based art using vintage erotica as her medium of choice. Read more about Flour in the following publications: Rolling Stone, Allure Magazine, XBIZ, AVN, Hustler, MTV News, Medium & Vice.
Kayla Katt
Communications Director
Kayla created COYOTE’s sex worker storytelling series. She is a 24-year-old, Jamaican sex worker based in NYC. She first entered the sex industry at 17 years old through a pimp and shortly after began independently advertising on Backpage. She loves being a sex worker and refers to it as “her passion and calling,” and is a staunch advocate for full decriminalization of prostitution and destigmatization of sex work. Her lifelong work is to improve sex workers’ livelihoods, racial inequity, mass incarceration, the criminal (in)justice system, pursue environmental justice, and more. In her free time, she enjoys practicing rest and self-care, watching “The Office”, and enjoying delicious foods.
Sue
Art Coordinator
Sue is Coyote’s art coordinator and a queer artist with a deep-rooted interest in the well-being and sanctity of sex workers. She lovingly works for the liberation and empowerment of all marginalized and oppressed people.
Samantha Cote
Resource & Outreach Coordinator
Samantha is a Political Science and Francophone Studies Major at RIC.
Sheila Brown
COYOTE Closet Outreach Coordinator
Zoey Dash
COYOTE Trans Rights Advocate
Lilah Rose
Spokesperson and Disability Advocate
Lilah is an educator and fetish model. She is passionate about teaching people about consent, communication, exploring their sexuality, and the intersection of disability and sex work. Lilah works with Coyote as a spokesperson and disability advocate.
Elainie
Harm Reduction Specialist
Elainie is a second generation sex worker and activist who lives and breathes all things harm reduction. An active member of their community and chronic workaholic, they are currently pursuing a dual degree in Sociology and Ethnic studies with a minor in nonprofit management in hopes of decriminilizing and destigmatizing sex work, drug use, and homelessness.
Yash
Intersectional Education & Research Director
Yash (it/he/fae) is a demifluid transmasc/nonbinary sex worker from Belgium, China, and California. It is about to complete a Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a minor in Sexuality Studies with plans to pursue a PhD. He is a published author in poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction with some of his writing being banned. Fae has been a sex worker since 2017 having worked streets-based, online, as an escort, dom, and porn performer. Yash has compiled and taught 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive sexuality education programs for college students. It has previously done activism work for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Utah and also advocates for survivors, decriminalization, improved sexuality education for everyone, intersectional feminism, reproductive justice, pluralism, disability rights, communities of color, immigrants, the homeless, incarcerated individuals, and environmental justice. He is also a child sex trafficking survivor and advocates for policy that supports the needs of both sex workers and trafficking survivors.