Our Mission

We are map makers, charting the unexplored territories of a new world and an uncertain future.

We don’t know what the future will bring, but we know the skills and tools we’ll need to build it. Our mission is to equip as many people as possible with these tools, to speak a common language, to create a new consensus reality rooted in understanding, awareness, and love - a reality where conflict is the trigger for evolution and connection, not division and destruction.

We envision this new world built on a foundation of deep inner awareness and a commitment to caring for all our relations and the earth itself.

Inheritance Project is in service of this awakening. We are here as guides, creating the space for each person called to join The Evolution. We invite all who are ready to learn and practice this new way together. Through personal transformation, and the cultivation of community, we will shape the building blocks of this new reality, transcending the inherited consensus reality and weaving a new ontology together.

Our Founding Team

We are storytellers, educators, facilitators, strategists and healing arts practicioners. We work with individuals and teams, large and small, to help them re-imagine their lives, their role in the collective and become leaders of an inclusive and collaborative future.

Chief energy officer

Katya Stepanov

Katya is a Belarusian-Jewish-American facilitator, speaker, writer, director, actor, and immersive experience designer who trains and works with leaders, individuals, and organizations to build understanding across cultural divides and guide authentic social change. Katya received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama and is passionate about empowerment through storytelling.

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Chief strategy officer

Mallory Combemale

A Chinese-Singaporean-French-American raised in London, Mallory is fascinated by identity and cross-cultural understanding. In her 10+ years of consulting experience, she’s worked with diverse groups ranging from Fortune 100 executives to non-profits, government officials, and entrepreneurs. Her toolkit includes ethnography, Sustained Dialogue, the Creative Problem Solving Process, and transformative coaching.

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Chief experience officer

Ariel Figueroa

Ariel is a Puerto Rican-Jewish-American educator, experience designer, and health and wellness consultant, who creates spaces for self-inquiry and healing. Ariel received his Master’s of Education from Hunter College. After 6 years as a teacher in public and private schools, Ariel created a company to design nature-based retreats and programming for individual and team development.

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Co-FOUNDER FEATURE - ORATO

Family flees Belarus, years later woman launches Inheritance Project

Waves of Russian friends left Instagram and Telegram. We stepped through a door to a new reality. Russia entered the dawn of renewed oppressive authoritarianism, and my Russian friends became paranoid. I felt it.

DISMANTLING INHERITED SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION

In her book, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Pema Chodron wisely teaches us, “Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved.

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DIALOGUE IS THE ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE

If we really want to build a more equitable future for all living beings — regardless of their color, class, country, creed or culture — then we need to learn how to have dialogue with people whose views or experiences contradict our own, trigger us, or that we disagree with.

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