Meet the humhum team
Our team is remote and based in San Francisco. We host in-person events in New York and San Francisco as well as virtually.
Photo taken by Ray Gannon
Alexandra ballensweig
Founder, CEO
Alexandra has 10+ years of facilitating experiences, and holding space for groups to connect, collaborate, and create. Prior to founding humhum Alexandra worked as a consultant in Strategic Design and Product Management at BCG Digital Ventures, facilitating product innovation sprints for fortune 100 teams. Across corporate venture and consulting for startups, their experience spans across e-commerce, B2B SaaS, holistic wellness, finance, and event tech.
Alexandra is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, and a Reiki Master Teacher and practitioner trained in the Usui Method, and a Vipassana practitioner. They hold an M.S. of Industrial Design from Art Center College of Design.
Personal practice plays a critical role in Alexandra’s life and work. They graduated from the Dedicated Practitioner’s Program at Spirit Rock in 2024, and have had the privilege of sitting multiple month-long silent retreats to study and practice meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition over the last decade. They maintain a committed daily meditation and yoga practice to create with integrity.
Dr. Eileen Shoals
Mental Wellness Advisor
Dr. Eileen Shoals, Psy.D, M.A., L.M.F.T., and Intuitive Spiritual Therapist is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California with a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. With 18+ years of service in the mental and emotional health field, her primary clinical techniques stem from training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and elements of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Her extensive training in alternative treatment approaches includes connecting with the spirit of an individual to achieve balance and ultimate healing. Combining holistic approaches with traditional theoretical orientations has proven to be a successful combination in healing traumatic, addictive, psychiatric and/or emotional disorders.
Lindsey Kimura
Community Manager
After receiving a B.A. in Public Health from Johns Hopkins, the through-lines in Lindsey’s life are connection, wellbeing, and learning. She’s traveled to over 30 countries, and built a career across disciplines like finance, education, fitness, marketing, healing and wellness. With 12 years as a leader in professional pole fitness, Lindsey helped rebrand and shift the pole industry to include the fitness and sport angle, by creating training programs, competitions, accreditations, and more. Additionally Lindsey is a certified yoga teacher with 18 years experience. Her experiences have given her the opportunity to blend Western Science, Physiology, Eastern Medicine, Yoga and various healing modalities into grounded sacred offerings.
Efe Kabba
Facilitator
Efe is a storyteller who primarily works in the mediums of film/video and photography. She is currently based on Canarsie/Lenape Territory (aka Brooklyn, NY) but identifies as a global citizen. Her passion for humans, community, and connection has led her to host and facilitate large scale meditation gatherings in the past and, presently, conscious dating experiences via humhum. She dreams of a world where everyone has the tools to connect to deep intuition and feel empowered to create their own realities.
Shalin Mahadevia
Facilitator
Shalin is a meditation and yoga practitioner and guide with a background in neuroscience and music. He offers a variety of practices from concentration style meditation, to guided visualizations, gratitude practice, and movement.
Christie Mar
Facilitator
Christie is a coach, facilitator and energy worker who believes that people are fully sovereign, complete beings. She is devoted to the path of aliveness, and is committed to pointing people back to themselves. With humhum, her desire is to infuse each conscious dating experience with play, joy and connection so that people feel safe to embody their fullest, truest expression.
jason Luk
Facilitator and Coach
Masters Certified Wellness Coach, Catalyst Coaching Institute (MCWC)
Certified Mindfulness Teacher, International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA CMT-P)
Dr. Marie THouin
Coach and Content Collaborator
Dr. Marie Thouin is the founder of Love Insight Dating, a mindful dating coaching practice where she supports growth-minded people of all ages, genders, orientations, and relationship styles to create soulful relationships. She holds a PhD in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where her dissertation research focused on intentional intimate relationships.
Mental Wellness and Coaching
Coaches at humhum support you before or after dates, and at times during events to explore what’s top of mind/heart in your dating practice. They create space to explore what arises, or offer perspective on an experience.
Facilitated group and 1-1 experiences
Facilitators are skilled space holders; they will lead you through your group and 1-1 dating experiences so that all you have to focus on is what’s arising in your own experience, and on your connection with others.