Building a foundation for belonging, clarity, and community strength.
Blokk Akademy is a community-centered nonprofit strengthening underserved youth, families, and caregivers in Los Angeles — through education, wellness, food justice, cultural grounding, inclusive support, and family empowerment. We believe people need more than isolated programs; they need spaces where learning, nourishment, culture, and resilience come together.
The spelling is intentional. When young people, families, and caregivers are left out of education, wellness, nourishment, culture, and opportunity, confusion takes root — about identity, direction, safety, and belonging.
So BLOKK means building the opposite: structure where there's been instability, clarity where there's been confusion, belonging where there's been isolation. A block is solid. It can be built on. And it grows stronger connected to other blocks — unity, foundation, collective strength.
Four principles guide everything.
Health, Discipline, Study, and Spirituality shape how we approach youth development, family empowerment, wellness, food justice, and inclusion.
Health
We support physical, emotional, mental, and community wellness.
Discipline
Growth requires structure, consistency, accountability, and practice.
Study
We honor learning as a lifelong path — academic, cultural, spiritual, practical, and personal.
Spirituality
We recognize meaning, self-awareness, inner grounding, and connection to something greater than survival.
We refuse to separate the things that hold a person up.
Too many young people and families are asked to succeed while carrying under-resourced schools, food insecurity, chronic stress, and systems that are hard to navigate — while their brilliance and resilience go underestimated.
We don't separate education from healing, opportunity from family stability, or wellness from nourishment, culture, and community. We intentionally include parents and caregivers, because transformation must be supported at home and across the whole community.
Rooted in Los Angeles. Built around four people.
Our long-term vision: a community empowerment ecosystem.
We're building toward a replicable model for community-rooted education, wellness, nourishment, inclusion, and family support — one that can grow across Los Angeles neighborhoods and partner sites over time.
We envision a future where people aren't left to navigate barriers alone, but are surrounded by spaces, mentors, nourishment, and pathways that help them build stronger lives. This is the goal we're building toward — not a claim about today's footprint.
The people behind Blokk Akademy.
The people accountable for Blokk Akademy's mission, stewardship, and impact.
A clinical psychologist with 20+ years supporting children, adolescents, and families, Dr. Easterling is Founder & CEO of The Worthy Wellness Collective — a multidisciplinary coaching and consulting practice serving young people, families, and the educators who serve them.
For eight years she was Director of Counseling and Wellness at the Maret School in Washington, DC, where she built a K–12 trauma-informed wellness program and led faculty training, crisis response, and parent education. Her earlier clinical work with the LA County Department of Mental Health and community trauma centers grounds her in culturally responsive, trauma-informed care. A proud mom, she integrates attachment and nervous-system science into practical strategies that help adults raise resilient young people.
Haz brings 20 years bridging international corporate law, venture finance, and global executive leadership. A transaction attorney and strategic advisor, he specializes in cross-border corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, capital formation, and project finance.
He has advised entrepreneurs, technology innovators, family offices, infrastructure funds, and public corporations — serving as Associate General Counsel for a public biotechnology company and in the business and finance group of a global law firm — and has held executive roles including Chief Commercial Officer. He reviews ventures for Maryland's state-supported funding initiatives (MIPS and the Maryland Launch Fund). Haz holds a B.Comm (Honors) from Carleton University and a J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Baltimore, and is a member of the Maryland Bar.
We build programs that are accessible to people too often left out of traditional systems, and we seek partnerships that expand opportunity without compromising our mission. We're committed to using resources responsibly, transparently, and in service of public benefit.
Help us build the opposite of being left out.
BLOKK AKADEMY