In this conversation, Gabriela Zapata-Alma, LCSW, CADC unpacks moral injury as a crisis of conscience shaped by power, systems, and survival responses – and how moral courage and ethical defiance can help individuals and organizations use power in ways that protect dignity, justice, and connection. Come join us in this engaging conversation.
Gabriela Zapata-Alma
Right Use of Power Institute is honored to have Gabriella on our Board of Directors.
Gabriela Zapata-Alma, LCSW, CADC (they/elle) is a liberation-centered clinician, educator, and national expert with 20 years’ experience supporting survivors of interpersonal and structural violence. They lead GZA INK, serve as Associate Director of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health, and direct the Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor Training Program at the University of Chicago. A survivor and published author, Gabriela centers trauma-informed, survivor-led approaches and intergenerational healing in all their work.
Maya Shaw Gale is a Board Certified (BCC) life and leadership coach, a certified Hakomi practitioner and trainer, an energy medicine teacher, and an advanced RUP teacher. Over the past year, she has been part of a team developing a RUP coaching and consulting application. Based in Sedona, Arizona, Maya maintains a private practice where she coaches community and business leaders, healers, spiritual teachers, artists, and highly sensitive and empathic individuals.
Throughout her life, she has studied with a number of shamanic and indigenous teachers and is deeply committed to integrating indigenous perspectives of interconnectedness and reverence for all life into contemporary culture. She has served on the Board of the Tribal Trust Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting indigenous cultures and supporting wisdom keepers in sharing their teachings. Currently, she is collaborating with two corporate consultants to develop Business Beyond Usual, a new paradigm approach to business.
