Pronouns
she/we/they
What do you do as a consultant/coach?
I am a healing-centering facilitator, coach, and consultant. I support leaders, stewards, artists, organizations, and faith communities in building transformational cultures and structures.
I support the building of collaborative and regenerative organizations and movements through the practice of:
- Healing-centered and trauma-informed relational skills and facilitation
- Compassionate and non-violent communication
- Consensual and non-coercive leadership approaches
- Liberatory, anti-oppressive, and decolonial power analyses and conflict transformation
- Embracing generative conflict and principled struggle
- Non-hierarchical (horizontal or circular) organizational structures
- Valuing living beings and relationships over institutions and outcomes
- Equipping conscious and embodied leaders with skills to create impactful cultures of care
- Collective and equitable decision-making
- Regenerative and sustainable business models in right relationship with our planet
What is your approach?
I employ healing-centering and liberatory or decolonial approaches deeply rooted in ancestral Afro-Indigenous wisdom and culture. I enlist the support of the arts to invite groups into their own sets of solutions, harvesting the inherent wisdom of the collective.
I support leaders, coaches, and facilitators with skills in the areas of:
- Conscious, Inclusive, and Embodied Leadership
- Leading in times of rapid change, conflict, or crisis
- Global, regional, and local cultural competencies
- Divesting from all forms of violence and coercion
- Liberatory or decolonial facilitation
- Transforming coercive or non-consensual leadership styles
- Emotional or spiritual support for social justice leaders
- Becoming a futurist strategic leader
How has your experience/background contributed to your work?
I am a Queer, Black, Afro-Indigenous, immigrant, woman who has served in multiple leadership roles in national and international organizations working to eradicate poverty, violence, and injustice since 2007.
Painful experiences of being the only woman of color in leadership roles were the transforming fuel to help me develop the skills and practices to help me become an “elder-in-training” serving leaders and movements working to build the future we deserve.
For over a decade, I have been deeply involved in racial, gender, and economic justice and liberation work, and have observed with compassion the ways in which the harm of oppressive systems are replicated even in our organizations and movements for justice and liberation.
I am passionate about channeling ancestral traditions and practices to help disrupt and reduce harm, and help us envision free and peaceful tomorrows for all.
Relevant certifications or trainings
- Masters degree in International Economic Development
- Mindful Leader Certification
- Racial-Trauma-Informed Coach & Consultant
- Liberatory Group Facilitation