Teresa Mateus Email & Phone Number

Harlem, New York, New York

Organizational project and program planning and implementation; grants curation and cultivation; fundraising support; AYNI Healing Collective (integrative health + wellness) program coordination including BIPOC healer fellowship; coordinating creative arts programming (including workshops, mentorship and art exhibit curation); DEI/integrative equity strategic planning and implementation for internal and external measures; coordinating community-based needs assessment; building local community partnerships; coordinating Black/Brown maternal health and doula support needs assessment and research project planning (in collaboration with Columbia University); QTBIPOC community-building and program planning; intergenerational project curation and integration of ancestral wisdom, eldership and intergenerational resiliency-building for youth, young adults, adults and elders.THE KOTA ALLIANCE MISSION: The Kota Alliance connects grassroots work with global issues for social change centering on Black & Latinx communities of women and girls in West Harlem, New York and throughout the world. We help build more equitable communities for all marginalized identities using a collaborative feminist approach to advocacy, arts and health-wellness programming.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Collaborator on a variety of projects related to Fetzer Institute's Shared Spiritual Heritage project including 18-month SSH GEM (Global Ethnic Majority) Spiritual Innovator Cohort and current co-curator of "Dream Sanctuary" 9-month BIPOC cohort facilitating 1x monthly collaborative dream, rest and visioning space towards a BIPOC/QTBIPOC futurism grounded in rest and visioning.FETZER INSTITUTE MISSION: Helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.At the Fetzer Institute, we believe in the possibility of a loving world: a world where we understand we are all part of one human family and know our lives have purpose. In the world we seek, everyone is committed to courageous compassion and bold love—powerful forces for good in the face of fear, anger, division, and despair.Inspired by our founder John E. Fetzer, we encourage each other to discover new ways of knowing our sacred world and explore our personal spiritual journeys as we work toward transformed communities and societies in which all people can flourish.Each member of our team—and each of our partners committed to this common vision—brings a unique spiritual and religious lens, but all of us are drawn into community by our shared sense of sacred connection to ourselves, each other and our planet. And together, we inspire and serve a global movement transforming the world into a more loving home for all.

Globally

TRACC4Movements' Healer Network is a community-building space for healing care providers who are invested in being trained and equipped to respond to crisis and care on the frontlines and backlines of social movements. Whether you are someone who is wanting and willing to show up at the physical frontlines of movement trauma (in a rapid mobilization capacity) or want to support movements and organizers in your community in a back-lines and day-to-day care way we want to connect with you and have you as part of our healing care provider network! We need all of us, together, to be able to provide the healing support that is needed in our hurting communities and movements. There is work and space for the roles of many people, from many healing care backgrounds, and with all levels of interest in engagement. We want to build a space for healers willing to engage and grow in community so that all of us can be the best trained, equipped and prepared to respond to the needs in our communities, together.

New York City Metropolitan Area

My work and my own path has been shaped and formed by both ancestral/indigenous and western lineages of understanding hurt and the path to healing. The work of healing is as old as the mind-body-spirit wounds. There are many manifestations of healing - some which have been standardized and validated (like the lineages of mental health care) and those which are essential and ancestral which may not always be shaped by the same set of standards - but are equally valid and valuable. This is why I call the work that I do a kind of mixed-method medicine - a way of healing that has been shaped by more than one stream of wisdom. My own work and process is deeply informed by my own Andean Indigenous ancestral roots and by the mystical lineages of spiritual-emotional practice that have shaped my work over the last 20 years.I am a practitioner in the lineage of the Q'ero Paqos - healers of Incan ancestry that carry generations of wisdom, nestled in the mountains around Cusco, Peru. My primary teacher is Maestro Alejandro Apaza from the Apaza family of Paqos in the Q'ero tribe, and the last living Chumpi (healing stones) Master. Within the tradition of the Q'eros I am known as a Nusta Paqo after completing the three initiations in the tradition. I am honored by the wisdom of nature - most especially the wisdom of the Mountain Apus (sacred spirits) particularly in the Andes of my birthplace in and around Bogota, Colombia. I am ready and willing to learn at the feet of those that carry wisdom I have not yet learned. In a place between I think those like myself are called to be both elder and student - both in a place of wisdom and learning, and maybe, the best of our intuition knows we always live in that place.Through all these lenses of wisdom and healing, I offer individual, community and organizational guidance and consultation at the intersections of healing, spirituality, and activism - prioritizing BIPOC/QTBIPOC centering space-creation.​

Greater Chicago Area

The Mystic Soul Project's intention is to create spaces that center the voices, teaching, practices, and wisdom of People of Color at the intersections of mysticism and activism. Our mission is to foster engagement in a People of Color - Centered approach to action & contemplation, grounded in healing.

Evanston, Illinois

WOMENCARE MISSION: Womencare, founded by Laurie Kahn in 1978, is committed to encouraging and sustaining healthy relationships with self, others, family and community. Collaboration, mutuality and careful pacing are key to our relational approach. We welcome people of all races, ethnic groups, religions, genders, sexual orientations and abilities.* Specializing in the relational treatment of trauma, Womencare Counseling & Training Center offers individual, relationship and family counseling aimed at restoring life’s meaning and the capacity to form healthy relationships.

Chicago, Il

ST. AUGUSTINE COLLEGE MISSION: St. Augustine College, a Hispanic-serving institution founded in 1980, promotes equitable changes for a global society by providing academic excellence, advancement of knowledge and creative innovations to equip our graduates with a strong educational foundation, integrity, genuineness, compassion and leadership. Our multiculturally supportive and bilingual institution of higher learning is dedicated to strengthening personal identities and reinforcing cultural interaction for Latinos and individuals of diverse groups and faiths.

Life isn't always easy after a deployment. That's where Vet Centers can help. Vet Centers across the country provide a broad range of counseling, outreach, and referral services to combat Veterans and their families as well as survivors of Military Sexual Trauma [MST]. Vet Centers guide Veterans and their families through many of the major adjustments in lifestyle that often occur after a Veteran returns from combat or has suffered sexual assault/harassment while in the armed services. Services for a Veteran may include individual and group counseling in areas such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), alcohol and drug assessment, and suicide prevention referrals. All services are free of cost and are strictly confidential.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Philosophy And Religious Studies

CIIS is the university for radically curious people who are seeking meaningful growth, academic rigor, innovative research, and community.

Master'S Degree, Clinical/Medical Social Work

NYU's School of Social Work program is Clinical Social Work-focused which means the course of study is clinically-focused. My coursework.

Bachelor'S Degree, English Language And Literature/Letters With A Women Studies Minor

Activities and Societies: Internship: Avalon Publishing Group: Editorial Intern [Copywriting and Editing]

Community-Based Full Spectrum Doula, Community-Based Full Spectrum Doula

Ancient Song is a national birth justice organization working to eliminate maternal and infant mortality and morbidity among low-income.

Initiation In Q'Ero Paqo Tradition Of Ancestral Medicine, Paqo Healer

200 Ryt Certification, Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy

Spirituality: Action & Contemplation