Dr. Durryle Brooks is a scholar, healing practitioner, and founder of Love and Justice Consulting, where he supports organizations and communities in building cultures rooted in empathy, accountability, and collective care. He is the creator of the Critical Theory of Love—a justice-centered framework shaped by his lived experience as a Black queer person navigating systems that often confuse control with care.

Durryle’s work emerged from a deep reckoning with how love is taught, weaponized, and withheld—and how we might reclaim it as a liberatory force. Through years of research, facilitation, and healing work, he has helped individuals and institutions reimagine love as a practice of grace, truth-telling, and repair. His sessions on the Critical Theory of Love and Self-Reverence invite participants to move beyond survival, toward wholeness, authenticity, and a love that does justice.