COYOTE Staff
Bella Robinson
Founder / Executive Director
Bella 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 victims. Bella is a previously incarcerated person who was a victim of state-sponsored violence.
Contact: Bella@coyoteri.org, (401) 525-8757
Tara Burns
Research & Policy Director
Tara is a sex worker of 30+ years and a sex trafficking survivor living in remote Alaska. She is a founding board member of the Community United for Safety and Protection, a former co-chair of the International Steering Committee of the Red Umbrella Fund, and has done groundbreaking academic research and lobbying for sex workers and sex trafficking survivors in Alaska. She is the author of the Whore Diaries series and her writing about sex work policy issues has appeared in publications like Vice, Alternet, and the Anchorage Press.
Tatianna Rothchild
Research and Policy Assistant
Tatianna is a Political Science PhD student at Northeastern University. She is passionate about challenging state violence, particularly in areas where institutions claim moral creditability and reputational gains for participating in violence.
Day Lee
COYOTE CLOSET Outreach Coordinator
Day Lee is a mutual aid organizer in Providence and is experienced in events management and political research. They are passionate about criminal justice reform, gender and race equity, and climate action. They study data science.
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.
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.
Contact: ramonaflour@gmail.com
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
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.
Nicole Araujo
Research Assistant
In her work, Nicole Araujo seeks to illuminate the existence of those who have been silenced. She is the founder of VENUS (Valued Existence of Northeastern and Ubiquitous Sexworkers), a sex worker mutual aid group based out of Portland, Maine. Notable publications of Nicole’s include, “Inaccessible Aid: A Sociological Analysis of How Stigma Amplified Negative Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Sex Workers in Strip Clubs,” (Inflections Magazine), “The Feminist Community’s Exclusion of Sex Workers: Then and Now,” (Ripple Zine), “To the Public Sex Professionals,” (St. James Infirmary’s Red Umbrella Rides), and her BA thesis La Fille Publique: Depictions of Sex Work in Fin-de-siècle Literature. Nicole can often be found practicing Ashtanga yoga, traveling, enjoying great food, and cultivating growth through awareness and meditation. Her sex worker advocacy heroes are Lola Davina, Jacq the Stripper, Maya Angelou, and Juno Mac.
IG: @nicoleelizaaraujo | Tiktok: @opalnea