Education Lineage
& Training

My work is deeply influenced by Tema Okun, Kimberlé Crenshaw, bell hooks, and Audre Lorde — their scholarship on white supremacy culture, intersectionality, and liberation shapes how I understand power, privilege, and identity as the water we're all swimming in, work that calls us toward healing both individually and collective.

I offer deep gratitude to every teacher along the way — those who nourished my growth, and those who, through harm or confusion, taught me what to unlearn. Each one, in their own way, helped clarify my path.

Adriana DiFazio

  • Radically Engaged Buddhist Studies: A year‑long course in Buddhist teachings and radical political thought (in progress)

NJ State Bar Foundation

  • Restorative Justice in Schools: Tiers 1 - 3

Dra. Rosales Mesa

  • Animal Allies Medicine: Teachings of the Serpent, Jaguar, Hummingbird & Eagle

  • Divine Alignment

  • Reclaiming Intuition

Lama Rod Owens

  • Buddhist Studies (ongoing)

  • Shelter in the Storm: Calling on the Blessings of the 5 Buddha Families

  • Letting the Ancestors Hold You: BIPOC Practice Series

  • The Dharma of Spiritual Abolition: Dialogue & Practice Guided by the Heart Sutra

  • Love & Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger

Roxy Manning & Oren Jay Sofer

  • 8-Month Immersion in Nonviolent Communication Graduate

Oren Jay Sofer

  • Wise Speech: An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication

Toi Marie Smith

  • The Deepening

  • Project Bloom

David Treleaven

  • Internal Family Systems for Trauma-Sensitive Practitioners: A Comprehensive Guide

  • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Training: A Comprehensive Program for Mindfulness Practitioners

Gathering Ground & Justin Laing, Hillombo, LLC - Elevating Equity Anti-Oppression Collaborative Learning

  • Disrupting Colonialism in Nonprofits

Paterson Education Fund

  • Restorative Practice: Circle Facilitation

Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield - Sounds True

  • MMT 2024 Graduate

  • MMTCP 2023 Graduate

  • The Power of Awareness

The Embody Lab

  • The Art of Holding Space

Sebene Selassie

  • Uncoupling from Couple-dom

  • All About (Self) Love

Lodro Rinzler

  • Advanced Buddhist Studies

Gieselle Allen

  • How to Decolonize and Align Your Business

  • Revolutionary Rising

  • Power Portal

MNDFL Meditation - Lodro Rinzler

  • Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Graduate - 300 hrs

NY International Reiki Center

  • Master Reiki Training

Rev. Russell Clay

  • Reiki Levels 1 & 2

VIA Institute on Character

  • Character Strengths at Work

Mentor Coach 

  • Life Coach Certification

JourneyDance - Toni Bergins

  • Level 1 Facilitator

Whole Being Institute - Dr. Tal Ben Shahar

  • Certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching

  • Certificate in Positive Psychology

Seton Hall University 

  • Credits toward a bachelor's in Psychology

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