Rani Lacsa Marcos (they/siya), Heart Core Consulting Training Specialist, is a Mental Health Clinician and consultant for HEARTS since 2018. Rani co-leads trainings, content development, and consultancy groups with teachers, staff, and students. Rani's approach is guided by their ancestral roots in Bicol, Pampanga and Cagayan Valley, as well as their bakla immigrant framework developed in Sacramento Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. They have worked as a community organizer, creative facilitator, substance use counselor, educator, and therapist for children, youth, families, and im/migrants from black and brown nations; they have also focused on serving LGBTQ folks, artists, and other communities marginalized by systems of oppression. Rani received their Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and served as a core member of the Filipino Mental Health Initiative - San Francisco.