Cornerstones of Practice

Whole Body Learning

Rediscover how to learn through your whole body: the place with which you are intimately familiar. I challenge mind/body, nature/culture, and us/them orders and divides that shape popular ideas of self, others, place, and the environment. By engaging in practices of presence, movement, and attentiveness, learn how to release your creative self from the bonds of these separations.

Critical Awareness

New possibilities arise individually and collectively when we experience time and space from a decolonial and systems perspective. By exploring the historic and local-to-global forces that shape how people make and frame history/time and places — from homes to cities to own own bodies, we are better able to cultivate thriving, just and regenerative communities. 

Creative Connections

I foster creative connections and spaces for healing through co-learning experiences. Feel the collective joy and belonging that emerge when we come together through arts, poetry, storytelling, reflective activities,  outdoor walks and dialogue! Together, we interact in the web of life, enriching our community relationships.

Re-Enchanting Relationships

We expand our sense of self and understanding of “place” by honoring ancestors, community, the Living Earth, and the cosmos. Create individual and collective rituals for honoring place and land, roots and routes. Deepen resilience by embracing these relationships alongside others on this journey. No matter where you are, there are ways to belong.

Below are some of the scholars/philosophers whose work inspires me (especially those in bold) …

  • Sara Amhed
  • Yountae An
  • Aisha Beliso-de Jesus
  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • Keri Vacanti Brondo

  • Michelle Christian
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  • Donna Haraway
  • Saidiya Hartman
  • Steven D. Hoelscher
  • Juliet Hooker
  • bell hooks
  • Tim Ingold
  • Doreen Massey
  • James L. Matory
  • Sandro Mezzadra
  • Katherine McKittrick
  • Walter D. Mignolo
  • Brett Neilson
  • Carolyn Nordstrom
  • Dana O’Driscoll
  • Jemima Pierre
  • Allan Pred
  • Anibal Quijano
  • Abigal Rose-Clark
  • Diana Taylor
  • Katherine Verdery
  • Peter Wade