Yana Tallon-Hicks is a consent, sex & sexuality writer and educator living in Western Massachusetts. Her work centers around the belief that pleasure-positive & consent-based sex education can positively impact our lives and the world.

Yana has been working as an independent sex educator for over a decade. Her workshops about sexual pleasure, communication & consent are taught at colleges, high schools, and sex toy shops all over New England. She has delivered guest lectures, keynote speeches, and even a TEDxTalk in Vienna, Austria about her work. 

As a successful self-employed sex educator, she has written her own custom lesson plans for over two dozen workshops; created her own branding, marketing, social media presence, and website; managed her own fee schedule, workshop bookings, and professional networking; and has been invited to speak at high schools and college across the country including Duke University, Simmons College, Smith College, Hampshire College, The Williston Northampton School, and dozens more in the ten years she’s been working as a sex educator.

She currently practices individual and relationship therapy at in her private practice in Brattleboro, VT where she focuses on sex & sexuality topics, non-monogamous relationship structures, and healthy relationship repair.

Read more about Yana & her work here, where you can also read testimonials about her work, read her sex advice column, follow her on Instagram & Twitter, and watch her TEDxTalk: Is the Porn Brain Our New Sex Educator?.