About Us
Tiara Cash, PhD, NBC-HWC, CWP
Founder & Lead Consultant
Executive Director
Equitable Mindfulness & Wellness Practitioner
Owner
Crowned Vitta LLC is a multi-disciplinary company serving communities through the concepts of mindfulness, meta-awareness, and meaningful self-relationships and relationships with others. Founder and Lead Consultant, Dr. Tiara Cash (she/they), was born and raised in Memphis, TN. She is a Black American, queer woman with Indigenous heritage (Non-enrolled Choctaw & Cherokee descendant), and former student-athlete. She is a PhD, Vanier Scholar who earned her doctorate in Social Psychology from Simon Fraser University, and a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Dr. Cash also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise and Wellness from Arizona State University and two Masters degrees – one from Western Illinois University in Kinesiology (dual concentration in Sports Psychology and Fitness/Wellness Management) and one in Psychology from Simon Fraser University.
Importantly, Dr. Cash is a certified Mindfulness Instructor (with the Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults and ASU’s Mindfulness Leadership Certificate) with over 20 years of personal practice of mindfulness and meditation. She has been a practitioner of this work for the last 10 years where she has worked in various settings including higher education, athletics, and the non-profit sector. Tiara is also a Certified Wellness Practitioner with the National Wellness Institute, which is a gold-standard certification that recognizes her multidimensional, multicultural high-level wellness understanding of implementing wellness standards in all of her work.
Featured on NPR (National Public Radio) as an expert and through her TedxSFU talk, Tiara is creator of the Equitable Mindfulness Framework, which she uses the basis for the work done at Crowned Vitta LLC. This framework includes 3 tiers (personal protection, sustainability of practice, and creating programming with the population in mind), and a model that is utilized for contentious conversations across social differences when facilitating conversations at convening, conferences, and gatherings. She currently uses these concepts to curate conferences, create presentations and workshops, and conduct trainings on mindfulness and equity through her business.
Important to Dr. Cash is the work she has done and continues to do in community. As a organizer and community consultant she coordinates and speaks at anti-oppression events, supports grassroots movements, and focuses on bring present as a caregiver for many advisory committees that uplift the fight for liberation of systemically and intentionally marginalized groups (i.e., PoGM, 2SLQBQQIA+, Disabled communities, and many more).
Dr. Cash is looking forward to serving your organization!
Check out Dr. Cash’s Children’s Books in the Self-Affirmations and Journey to Loving Yourself Series: “Little Brown Girl, You Belong” September 2023 and “Little Boy, It’s Okay to Cry” in August 2024.
Certifications:
2025 – National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, NBHWC
2024 – Certified Wellness Practitioner, National Institute of Wellness
2024 – IDI: Intercultural Development Inventory certified (IDI)
2021 – CCR in Equity Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom, Simon Fraser University
2021 – Master Herbalist Diploma, Centre of Excellence
2019 – Certified Instructor, Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults (MIEA)
2019 – Ordainment in New Thought, Reyana Universal Essence Spiritual Center
2017 – Mindfulness Leadership Certification, ASU Center for Mindfulness
Brenda Calhoun Cash, MS
Administrative Lead
Independent Contractor
TBA
Breana Cash, M.Ed.
Business & Workshop Liaison
Independent Contractor
Breana Cash (she/her) is from Memphis, Tennessee. She has a bachelors in Marketing and Management with an emphasis in Fashion. And, a Masters in Education (with a teaching certification). She is an international Pre-K teacher in Asia and uses all aspects of her education and lived experience to support the children, teachers, and staff that she works with.
Breana was raised in and around South Asian and African practices of mindfulness, and enjoys learning more about how to include those practices within the classroom. She is also of Indigenous heritage (Choctaw and Cherokee descendant) and is learning more about those intersections daily. She earned a Mindfulness Leadership Certificate from Arizona State University and is trauma-informed in her practices.
With Crowned Vitta LLC, she works to help create the vision for the business and is also an important part of our workshop planning. She plays an important role in holding space for attendees of workshops during our Equitable Mindfulness trainings.
Cheryl Blie, M.A.
Intergenerational Apprentice & Knowledge Keeper
Independent Contractor
Cheryl Blie is a PhD student at Arizona State University enrolled in the Justice Studies program. Her research embodies how Indigenous youth define resilience growing up in a traditional and spiritual upbringing. Cheryl is of the Diné tribe from the Diné (Navajo) Nation. She has over 20 years of professional experience working with Native American tribes, tribal organizations, and Indigenous populations across the United States. Cheryl’s doctoral research focuses on advancing mindful, holistic health through demographic-specific strategies, demonstrating her commitment to promoting well-being initiatives to embody resilience in native youth. Her professional background in leadership positions enabled her a unique ability to understand how to develop partnerships between the communities in which they serve.
While much of her work has been in a director role, Cheryl has her own lived experience as a first-generation college student coming from the Navajo Nation. With Diné Bízáad (Navajo language) as her first language and raised in a traditional and spiritual environment. Cheryl brings a unique perspective on the challenges Indigenous people face because she can draw from personal experience as a third-generation boarding school attendee. Cheryl uses her platform as a professional and doctoral candidate to share knowledge with everyone to help create awareness of social justice issues and how the contemporary usage of mindfulness practices were already used in traditional and spiritual settings and ceremonies that predate colonization.
Brittany Dennett, M.A.
Research Director
Independent Contractor
Brittany Dennett (she/her) is a White (mainly English) and Native Hawaiian (registered with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs) woman. Brittany is currently a PhD student conducting research at Simon Fraser University and is expected to complete her PhD in 2025. Her personal research focuses on social psychology with a particular interest in romantic relationships and singlehood. She is interested in how society and societal beliefs affect our relationships to ourselves and others. She has experience with mixed methods approaches conducting her research using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Brittany is Crowned Vitta LLC research lead and supports workshop, training, and presentations as well as well as organizations who have a research need as we fulfill their contract.
Crowned Vitta LLC is a multi-disciplinary company serving communities through the concepts of mindfulness, meta-awareness, and meaningful self-relationships and relationships with others.