Lyrica Fils-Aime (she/her) is a facilitator, therapist, writer, leadership coach, and former school social worker whose work centers on building the next generation of educators, social workers, and play therapists. She has worked across early childhood, K–12, and higher education settings to strengthen leadership practices while attending to power, context, and impact.
Drawing from her clinical training and lived experience as a Black, mixed, Haitian-born, cis-woman, Lyrica creates learning spaces that invite honest reflection, challenge dominant norms, and honor the complexity of people and systems. Lyrica wrote a trilingual children’s book titled T se pou Taptap to keep children in the diaspora connected to their roots. She holds a BA from the University of Richmond, an MSW from NYU, an MS in Nonprofit Leadership from Fordham University, and is working on a PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center in Social Welfare. Her research focuses on complicity during authoritarianism, Papa Doc era history, immigrant experiences, and social worker moral resistance. She likes her reality TV messy, her pikliz extra spicy, and her work rooted in liberation.