Shawna Potter is a trained and accredited Intimacy Coordinator for film/TV, theater, photo shoots, and music videos. She has a strong background in crisis response and bystander intervention and enjoys helping actors tell dark and complicated stories.

Shawna is also the author of Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather, a practical guide based on her Safer Space Program, and the front-person for Baltimore band War On Women. Through her music and her work, Shawna has been empowering people to make their communities more fun and inclusive for over a decade.

She also hosts the podcast But Her Lyrics… (supported by her incredible Patreon community), is ordained to perform wedding ceremonies, and runs Big Crunch Amp Repair.

She is available for Intimacy Coordination & Direction, speaking engagements, workshops & trainings, music collaborations, appearances, interviews, consultations and coachings, and other special projects.