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I facilitate standards-based arts enrichment experiences that create portals of ancestral joy. Image by 6 de oro.

Offered two community workshops where diverse participants experienced gentle movement and breathwork from ancestral healing practices

Training teachers, schools and districts in culturally responsive teaching

Contributed research and analysis to a report to the State of Massachusetts.

Creating intersectional curriculum for educators and youth on social justice.

Co-facilitated a statewide quarterly session on equitable pedagogy for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Collaborated with group of lived-experience leaders to organize focus groups and interviews with stakeholders

Created curriculum that moves the needle towards ending homelessness.

During the pandemic, I offered donation-based qi cultivation practice with ASL translation in an intersectional, trauma-informed framework.

Identifying national and international evidence-based practices of Black and Indigenous-led homelessness, mental health, and violence intervention models.

Offering free dance healing at community listening session in collaboration with the California Endowment

Co-led monthly astrology gatherings that fundraised and redistributed over $15,000 USD in mutual aid

Offered production, graphic design, and marketing in addition to facilitation of monthly gatherings at no charge

Secured funding to travel to Paraguaçu land and conduct oral histories with Ebomi (wise elder) Nancy de Souza, compensating her for her time

Transcribed hundreds of pages of audio, translated to English, and compiled two manuscripts

Published the Portuguese manuscript for free to minimize access barriers, and published the English version under the name of the elder itself, donating all royalties to her

Produced virtual book launch (2020) and in-person launch event in Los Angeles (2022) with live drumming, dance and translation

Providing personal and ritual assistance to elders as needed

Recording and transcribing spiritual notes for the community

Transcribed Introduction to Ifa, Yorùba Religion from audio to manuscript form for publication

Copy-edited 101 Questions About Ifá by Baba Falokun Fasegun

Led collaborative writing of syllabus for student-designed Brown University class “Yoruba Religion and Africana Freedom Struggles” approved by the College Curriculum Council for spring 2017

Crowd-funded $3300 to bring initiated Ifá priest Awo Fasegun to lecture at Brown about Yoruba religion and install Orunmila statue in the Chaplain’s office

Oversaw logistics and exercised executive decision-making skills in planning and delegating responsibilities for guest lecture, ensuring accessibility and documentation of content

Raised $4350 for Afro-diasporic dance conference with less than two weeks to reach funding goal

Managed communications with 125 potential donors, followed up to ensure transfer of funds, and sent hand-written thank you notes

Negotiated partnership with Brown University Bookstore so that local nonprofit could sell handmade products to benefit West African immigrants in Rhode Island

Organized community gathering connecting elderly immigrants with local children for intergenerational exchange

Relevant awards: Citizen Citation Issued by Mayor of Providence, RI (Sep 2016), Citation in recognition of Outstanding Volunteerism Award Issued by State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Office of the Lieutenant Governor (Sep 2016), Certificate of Accomplishment Issued by United States Senator Jack Reed (Sep 2016)

Advertised, collected payment, and delivered dolls and compensation to customers and master artisan Iya Bezita d’Oxum. Iya Bezita trained with the legendary artist Mãe Detinha de Xangô. In this project, I secured over 2,500 Brazilian reais to the artist.

I provide strategic support in operations, human relations, sales and marketing for this successful community cultural center.

Followed the lead of community stakeholders to resist environmentally racist policy in the historically-Black Rogers Road neighborhood. Attending community meetings, supporting with childcare, and doing outreach.

Relevant award: Pauli Murray Human Relations Youth Award (Mar 2008)

Engaged in principled civil disobedience with Rev. Wiliam Barber and other NAACP members.

Made hot chocolate and pastries for marchers in the annual Chapel Hill NAACP celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.