Greetings, salaams and welcome. Thank you for taking the time to read a bit more about my life and work.

With 18 years of immersion in postcolonial studies, education, social justice, community building, somatic healing, conflict transformation, music and the performing arts, my focus over the last decade has centered on community engagement and restorative justice, particularly within learning communities. I've honed my experience through hands-on culture building, structural transformation, and partnerships with youth, educators, administrators, individuals and community organizations committed to anti-racism and community healing. 

I envision myself as a cultural steward, one who explores and uplifts community core values with an equity and justice lens, to collaboratively support the transformation of relationships, structures and practices to reflect those values. 

My skills encompass various community transformation practices including community building, facilitating addressing harm and conflict processes, support and accountability circles, healing and creativity spaces, and guiding institutional and cultural change. I facilitate trainings and workshops tailored to the needs of communities, and engage people in classrooms, conferences, and other diverse spaces. As a musician and performer, I advocate for social justice and utilize expressive arts as potent tools for healing and transformation.

In the last decade I’ve held transformative music sessions with incarcerated people inside prisons, jails and juvenile halls, taught classes in universities and schools, worked with Oakland Unified School District as a restorative justice coordinator, taught voice as a full-time middle-school teacher in a public classroom, and served as the Restorative Women and Girls Coordinator with Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) where I held weekly intergenerational community healing circles, co-facilitated trainings for professionals and partnered with staff to lead various community organizing events to end mass incarceration. 

I’ve contracted with The Teaching Well as a multi-racial healing affinity group facilitator with educators across lands and borders, and worked with UCSF Children’s Hospital to co-write a nature-based healing curriculum for families. 

In 2021 I served Saint Joseph Notre Dame high school as an Interim Dean of Students and currently support the campus as a Personal and Academic Counselor. Since 2020 I’ve worked with over 25 schools providing restorative justice training, community engagement facilitation, professional developments and coaching. Since 2020 I’ve partnered with John Muir Health’s Community Violence Prevention program to co-create their first Restorative Justice Initiative in East Contra Costa County. 

At the heart of my work is a commitment to social justice and remembrance, infusing radical joy, compassion, healing and doing my best to uplift one another's dignity. I value the art of celebrating our wins, making space for what is emergent, acknowledging and healing wounds to the best of our ability, and actively creating the world we want to pass along to future generations.

I hope the transformative power of restorative cultures continues to seed and grow in joyful, healing and nourishing ways across borders, lands and peoples.