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New York, NY, US

Greater New York

Greater Boston Area

-Support leaders in movements, nonprofits, and government agencies in identifying their core needs and values, clarifying their vision for their lives and organizations, and building a pathway to their most powerful Selves. -Co-facilitate "Facilitative Leadership for Social Change" and "Fundamentals for Racial Justice Facilitation", two core IISC.

New York, United States

-Support leaders in movements, nonprofits, and government agencies in identifying their core needs and values, clarifying their vision for their lives and organizations, and building a pathway to their most powerful Selves. -Design and facilitate healing circles for Black, Indigenous, and People of Culture experiencing the impacts of white body supremacy.

Greater Boston Area

- Provided oversight for vision, strategic planning, and budgeting for social justice foundation. - Allocated seed grants to frontline communities building movements of and for justice and liberation, - Collaboratively designed and facilitated values-based processes to redesign board and staff structure, mission, and vision.- Co-led efforts to design and.

Greater Boston And Greater Providence Areas

- Designed and implement community arts residencies that integrate music education, literature, cultural history and intercultural relationship building in partnership with public, charter and private, schools, colleges, universities, non profit organizations and state youth programs.- Designed and implement community arts residencies for social justice.

Providence, RI

- Organized leaders from religious institutions and unions in racially and economically diverse communities to create power for social change.- Provided ongoing leadership training for grassroots leaders in the areas of organizing skills, power analysis, participatory research and theological and values based reflection.- Co-organized successful campaign.

New York, NY

- Co-developed and co-led participatory training in the areas of community organizing, economic, racial and gender justice, and theological and values based reflection to prepare program participants for overseas and domestic service learning experiences within grassroots and solidarity organizations.- Assisted in program administration, development.

Lumberton, NC

- Assisted in community-based program planning, development, implementation and evaluation in rural, low-income communities of color. - Extensive experiential training in community outreach and mobilization, participatory community needs assessment, team building, curriculum development, group facilitation, leadership training and proposal writing.

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

- Assisted research and communication staff in preparation of project reports, primary and secondary data collection for field programs and production of quarterly newsletter distributed internationally. - Developed position paper on child labor in the match production industry in consultation with executive director and research staff.

Ba, Anthropology, Psychology

Junior Year Abroad, Developmental Psychology, Modern Religious Thought, 18Th Century Methodism

Study Abroad, Theology & Psychology

Bachelor'S Degree, Anthropology And Psychology

Psychology & Religious Thought

Psychology And Religious Thought