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, love, erotic power, the uses of anger, and liberation shapes how I understand power, privilege, and identity. It is the water we're all swimming in, work that calls us toward healing both individually and collectively.

Colorful wheel chart titled 'Intersectionality Wheel of Privilege' showing various social attributes and their levels of privilege or marginalization in the USA, including categories such as skin color, gender, sexual orientation, ability, class, and more.

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.

Listed in order of completion:

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