Steering Committee

A six-person steering committee leads NARIX. To prevent burnout and ensure that the organization remains dynamic, Steerco members have a six-event term limit. At the end of each event, we say goodbye to one member and welcome a new person to the team. New Steerco members are selected by the existing committee based on their alignment with NARIX values, contributions to their local rope communities, skills, and ability to commit to a demanding and challenging role for several years.

Current Steering Committee Members

Tornus ~ Seattle, WA

Tornus (he/him) is a Seattle-based kink educator, activist, community builder, and rationalist. He teaches with Full Circle Kink, serves on the steering committee of the North American Rope Innovation eXchange (NARIX), and makes trouble with Meerkat Agenda. He was part of the team that produced the Kink Education Code of Conduct (KECC) and was the primary author of the Kink Education Minimum Standards (KEMS). He’s bad at saying no to interesting projects.

Havoc ~ Austin, TX

Havoc (she/her) has been kinky for as long as she can remember. Starting in Northern Colorado, Havoc began attending public events in 2016 and regularly volunteered at the Community dungeon. In January of 2017 Havoc moved to Austin, and in that time, she has been actively involved with a multitude of community groups as well as co-leading both a small rope group and the Austin chapter of TNG.

Havoc identifies as a 'switchy-rope-everything.' In addition to rope, her kinks include fire, wax, impact, mental games and more. Her true passion, however, lies in education; focusing on negotiations, rope, and consent. Havoc hopes to help individuals with journeys of self-discovery. In the vanilla world Havoc has been a volunteer leader close to a decade for various organizations which has taught her skills she brings to all the organizations she is involved in. Above all, Havoc enjoys the inclusive nature of the Kink Community, and hopes to help other leaders build their own inclusive and ethical communities and community cultures. 

Nox ~ Chicago, IL

Nox (they/them) is a top-leaning plus-sized femme switch based in Chicago. Since discovering rope and kink in 2015, they have been an obsessive student focused on acquiring, deconstructing, and synthesizing knowledge from an abundance of sources.

In play, Nox explores both physical and emotional sadism, playing with shame, power, pain, and devotion, though mostly only with close partners and friends. For Nox, rope is a way of exploring intimacy and building healthy and validating relationships. And, it is also fucking hot.

Nox has been a presenter, organizer, venue host, and facilitator, since 2017. As a community leader, they believe in creating spaces where people can grow, enabling people to be happy in their rope experiences, valuing every person as equals regardless of their rope context, and helping people discover how great rope is.

Godam ~ Rochester, NY

Godam (he/him) is originally based in Western NY. He identifies primarily as a rope top, though started out as a submissive. Godam has been in the BDSM scene since 2013, topping for rope since 2014. Starting with decorative bondage, Godam over the years has grown to enjoy just about all the things rope has to offer. He especially enjoys dynamic rope and tying outdoors.

Godam actively works toward growing rope communities through supporting and organizing events, fostering connection, and keeping information accessible. In his personal life he is committed to always learning, and finds great joy teaching and sharing what he has learned with others.

Godam is an excitable human who thrives when there is an adventure in store or a challenge to overcome. He is just about always open to learn, grow, travel, and collaborate. As a human he enjoys fusing different ideas and concepts together to see if something new can come out of it. He encourages making mistakes and getting messy while in the pursuit of understanding.

Thumper ~ Montreal, QC, Canada

Thumper (he/they) was first exposed to rope at a fateful first date in September 2019. Soon after, they started their education at Tension Montreal, first in ropes and subsequently as a rigger in December 2019. Being a stage performer and former gymnast, they have always had an enthusiastic interest for live performance.

Their first NARIX (MTL’22) was a turning point in their rope practice, providing the opportunity to meet people with diverse experiences and approaches to rope. At that event, they also met the first people who believed in what they and their partner Bondagious had to offer the community through their rope practice. From that moment on, the pair has been invited to teach and perform in various rope spaces across Canada and the United States. Thumper also has close experience with direct democracy, having been involved in Quebec’s seven-month-long student strike of 2012 and serving on many boards of directors.

They wish to represent and serve the NARIX community to the best of their capacity and help create meaningful experiences like those they had at their first event.

Hazel ~ Nashville, TN

Hazel (she/they) is a queer and BIPOC rope enthusiast who occupies all roles in the space. She began as a rope bottom in 2019 and has never looked back since. Her first NARIX was the 2023 session in LA, where she fell in love with the innovation and connection the uncon style offered.

In her home practice, she takes a more artistic approach, calling on skills used in her career as a ballerina and certified romantic. You will frequently find her climbing to new heights and taking on new challenges with her lab and tying partner(s). As a neurodivergent human, she takes a different approach to learning/teaching, basing her ties on feeling rather than learning set harnesses and sequences. She remains very conscious about how different stimuli impact a person’s rope experience and works to create an inclusive learning environment. As a hypermobile human, she is passionate about rope bottom education, understanding body mechanics and stressors in rope, and preserving longevity. She does not identify as disabled but lives with chronic pain and autoimmune diseases that impact her life. 

She believes that as rope practitioners, we are never done learning the ropes or the humans we tie with. In the teaching space, she enjoys facilitating self-suspension courses on movement and body awareness and social-emotional and somatic studies and co-leading her team’s Rope Bottom Roundtable.