About RTF
Rainbow Transformations Foundation is a trans-led nonprofit providing trauma-informed coaching, peer support, education, and systems-change work for trans, gender-diverse, and intersex people in Los Angeles — and beyond.
Hana Leyland is a queer woman of trans experience, a wellness coach, and the founder and Executive Director of Rainbow Transformations Foundation. She brings over five years of lived experience across advocacy, treatment systems, coaching, companionship, case management, house management, and business development.
She has personal and extensive experience of substance use, eating disorder, and mental health recovery, and is proud to have remained sober since 2018 — while recognizing that relapse is part of many people's stories, and without judgment for those for whom that is true.
Her work is grounded in lived experience — not as a disclosure, but as a care orientation. She understands, from the inside, what it takes to build trust with trans clients who have learned not to expect it from the systems meant to serve them. She works with clients navigating recovery and transition alongside other forms of life instability — the moments when identity, sobriety, housing, relationships, and survival are all in motion at once.
Her background is deliberately cross-disciplinary. She has supported clients ranging from individuals in early-twenties instability to working professionals, world-touring performers, and high-profile figures navigating treatment alongside public lives.
Our work is built on a different set of first principles — about identity, power, social conditions, and what care actually requires. Read Our Approach →
Sherry Young, PhD, CSAT has worked in the Behavioral Health field for 18 years as clinical liaison providing triage, assessment, and admissions referral and advocacy for clients of licensed therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists who treat mental health and addictive disorders. From 1997 to the present, she has provided ongoing consultation for practice growth to therapists and counseling practices. She is currently owner and independent consultant at the Right Fit Collaborative.
Dr. Patrick Lockwood has worked at every level of the mental health and addiction treatment industry, as well as for non-profits and startups. His background in community interventions began before he graduated from the University of Missouri, where he successfully co-authored a grant creating a virtual intervention to help parents on campus become more connected and develop a support community.
Sonia Figueroa, Esq. is a sole practitioner at SSFL Law, APC, practicing immigration law exclusively since 2014 — focusing on family immigration, humanitarian relief, and citizenship. She is a member of the LGBTQ+ Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, a US Army veteran, and former USCIS immigration service officer. She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School.
Jeff Gaddess is a systems architect for vulnerable and underserved communities. With more than three decades of experience redesigning how providers, cities, and counties respond to homelessness, serious mental illness, and structural displacement, he has developed non-congregate housing ecosystems, co-occurring disorder programs, neurodivergent-informed care models, and diversionary pathways that support reintegration from incarceration and long-term hospitalization back into community.
A recognized expert in trauma-informed systems design, Jeff has helped shape organizations, programs, and physical environments to prioritize safety, dignity, and belonging from the ground up. His work consistently produces outcomes that exceed industry benchmarks because it is rooted in human dignity, relational care, and sustainable systems change.
Trained as a depth psychologist and organizational psychologist, Jeff also serves as adjunct faculty, mentoring the next generation of undergraduate and graduate clinicians entering the field. He brings a rare combination of clinical depth, operational fluency, and partnership-building expertise to complex initiatives requiring both visionary design and practical implementation.