Rafe Eric Biggs, PhD

Rafe is the founder of Sexability an organization committed to educating people with disabilities explore sexuality and create intimate loving relationships. He earned his doctorate in Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University and is a Master Somatic Coach from the Strozzi Institute. He has been a leadership coach and organizational development consultant to Silicon Valley executives and corporations more than a decade.

In 2004 Rafe had a life altering experience. While traveling on spiritual retreat in India, he fell from a building and broke his neck. In an instant, he became a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down. He has spent the last several years learning how to take trauma and transform it into evolutionary growth. Rafe has been studying Tantra and other forms of energetic sexuality for over 15 years.

He has been counseling individuals and teaching groups in sexuality and disability including San Francisco State University, Alliant International University and UC Berkeley. He currently leads the Sexuality and Disability Support Group at the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, CA. Rafe was featured on the TLC show Strange Sex – Surrogate Manhood. He can be contacted at rafe@sexability.org

Ligia Andrade (Zuniga), M.A.

Ligia is a Bay Area native, has dedicated her focus on educating and empowering people with disabilities on various aspects of independent living, and pursuing a well-rounded fulfilling life, especially in the area of sexuality.

Ligia holds a Bachelors Degree in Human Services with an emphasis in Administration and Counseling, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Human Sexuality with an emphasis in Spinal Cord Injury. She became interested in sexuality and disability four years ago after realizing there was very limited information and support on sexuality for women living with spinal cord injury.

Ligia acquired a spinal cord injury in 2009 following an automobile accident, and has since been actively and deeply involved in the Spinal Cord Injury community in the Bay Area. She has been a peer supporter for four years through the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Spinal Cord Injury Peer Support Program. Through the peer support program, she along with other peers, encourage, teach and lend support to newly injured people on how to survive such a life-changing injury.

Ligia leads the Sexuality and Spinal Cord Injury peer group at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center through the Spinal Cord Injury Peer Support Program. She is also a motivational speaker for different organizations around the Bay Area. Two years after her injury she was employed through the Silicon Valley Independent Living Center, where she led the Stepping Stones Program/Olmstead Program helping people with disabilities in the community transition out of nursing homes or institutions, and or preventing them from becoming institutionalized. She can be contacted at ligia@sexability.org