Katrina Vaillancourt
Katrina Vaillancourt is a certified Nonviolent Communication (NVC) trainer, mediator, and life coach. Born and raised in the liberal and progressive city of Madison, Wisconsin, she moved to California’s equally liberal San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1990s. Raised in a family of passionate Democrats, Katrina has consistently held strong values for peace, environmental protection, and social well-being. Her life motto is “co-creating win-wins,” striving to live as an answer to the question “What would love do?” As a result of her experience falling into and emerging from the QAnon rabbit hole, Katrina has found ways to treat people across the entire political spectrum with compassion, understanding, and respect, modeling skills that are desperately needed in our time. In this conversation, she will be joined by her husband, Stephen Ghiglieri, C-suite executive in the life science industry, who stayed by her side despite the extreme challenges he endured during her six months as a QAnon.