As a kid I knew I didn’t want anyone else to define me. I was a Black and mixed race city girl, moved to rural Vermont from New York City by intrepid parents at the age of nine. For years I did not feel at home. I wanted the world around me to be better. A place where ‘different’ kids didn't feel so weird and left out. A place where everyone felt safe, no matter the color of their skin or gender. A place where we can all be our whole selves. Be who we be. A place where we are all free.

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I have explored questions about how to create this world for the past 25 years, and counting. I studied and supported women’s cooperatives in Ghana and Boston. Led strategic initiatives for international organizations. Integrated liberatory practices into everyday social justice work. All the way, I have been part of cross-cultural community and friendships working for gender, racial and economic rights and justice. 

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Like many feminist activists, aid workers, and (aspiring) mothers, my commitment to collective care and thriving has grown with life experience. Unsustainable stress and traumatic events during my years living in Afghanistan and Cambodia, gave me clarity that cultivating wellbeing and a more joyful, collective form of leadership in myself and others would be core to my service to people and planet.

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For the last 8 years, embodied learning and practice has been at the heart of all my work, whether I am coaching individual leaders, facilitating group strategy or team building or teaching emerging leaders to be curious and create new possibilities for a healthier, more just and joyful world.