Our Mission
Rising-Awakening holds the mission to help find freedom from loneliness and financial struggle through the spiritual and intellectual enlightenment that digital and standard literature can offer. We hold the belief that most of our suffering stems from a lack of understanding. Reading and learning bring that understanding necessary to end loneliness and financial struggle through community.
Our Leadership Team Makes us Who We are
Thanks to our leadership team who help us take our mission to the next level, we will not rest until we achieve a national and even global presence.
Founders
Edward Corona
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Edward has dedicated his life and time to understanding what causes loneliness and suffering. He co-owns Awaken ABA, a psilocybin facilitation training career school. He holds a license in behavioral analysis and has studied technologies such as data science and computer forensics for over 20 years. He is currently studying accounting and finance to help bring financial literacy and solutions to help with the student loan crisis. When he is not fine-tuning software or doing Jujitsu, he spends time with his son, showing him that a father's love aims to shape a brighter future for him and his generation.
Michelle Ruiz
Co-Founder & Marketing Executive
Michelle has dedicated her life to understanding how software and people work. She co-owns Awaken ABA, a psilocybin facilitation training career school. She holds a master’s in data science and has worked for many years in data analytics, marketing research, and now in loneliness economy research. She also aligns with the mission of helping solve loneliness and the student loan crisis. When she is not developing software, she is engaged in martial arts with her two children.
Board of Directors
Krischen Laing
Krischen has dedicated his life to doing body work as a form of relaxation and altered states of consciousness as well as psychedelic studies and blockchain architecture. He holds a massage therapy license and a blockchain architecture certification. He knows what it is like to struggle in a new city without knowing anyone, and that's what has brought him to a deep desire to solve socioeconomic issues. When he is not helping Awaken ABA carry their mission, he is with his partner exploring life and the world.
Alfredo Mendoza
Drug Addiction Researcher
Sammy Kahuk
Sammy has dedicated his life to researching cannabis healing properties for physical and emotional pain. His research led him to develop high-quality CBD products that can be found in over 3,000 stores. He has also researched the healing properties of psychedelic journeys, and he desires to contribute to helping with the loneliness economy and the financial struggle of those in debt. When he is not doing research and contributing to change the world for the better, he is spending time with his family as a great father, husband, son, and brother.
Bootsy Greenwood
Author, Narrator, and Comedian
Literacy as a Solution
We are here to reveal the root of our social problems and what causes loneliness and poverty.
Learning through literacy
Rising-Awakening aims to bring standard literacy through books and modern literacy through audiobooks, online training, and certifications that can help us bring solutions to the loneliness and financial crisis in to our communities.
Resolving social issues
We understand that levels of education are attained mostly based on income and social class. We are here to provide the information that leads our communities to understand the missing piece of the puzzle so we can solve our financial and social issues together because those issues relate directly to loneliness and financial struggles.
Every individual deserves dignity
We believe everyone has the right to learn and overcome the challenges of tough economies and social constructs.
We deliver change to the world
We aim to bring content that awakens us to the origins of our suffering so that we can do something about it and learn how to live the lives we deserve.
We lead with honesty
We don't claim to know all the answers, but we are more than willing to share what we know, and as we meet and collaborate with individuals who may have more answers to help our communities, we will continue to share what we discover.
It is time to rise and awaken
The story begins with us, but it continues with you.