As a white person in a commitment to ending white supremacy, the process of accountability is ongoing and based in my relationships.
I am continually studying, reading and deepening my knowledge and learning individually and in partnership both with other white practitioners, in white affinity spaces and in partnership with Black, Indigenous, People of Color colleagues.
I work in close partnership with the co-LAB Collective, a Black and women-owned consulting group. They have encouraged me to help create a bigger community of white consultants who do racial equity and liberation work to build a community of practice. We launched our first cohort of 30 white consultants in 2022 and our second cohort in 2023.
I developed the Embodying Racial Justice program, in part to redistribute funds to Black-led organizing projects. Over the past three years, I have redistributed over $50,000 per year to Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. I will continue to support their work as well as local Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led projects in locations where I host in-person courses. My goal is to redistribute 30% of the proceeds from all Embodying Racial Justice courses.
Simultaneously, I redistribute 20% of my income to individual BIPOC leaders and organizations. Some of the groups I support include the Manna-hatta Fund, Neighbor to Neighbor MA, Vocal NY, Justice Democrats, and many others.
I trained with the Strozzi Institute for Somatics and generative somatics. In those organizations, I appreciate everything I have learned from my teachers and key developers in this stream of somatics- I learned from teachersand innovators in this somatic lineage including Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Spenta Kundawalla, Staci Haines, Nathan Naik Shara, Elizabeth Ross, Jennifer Ianiello, MawuLisa Adeyemo, Liu Hoi Man Vassilisa Kapilai, Sumitra Rajkumari and many more.
I trained as a coach at Coaching for Transformation, Leadership that Works which is now based in India, and at the Strozzi Institute. I have also studied with Resmaa Menekam and Susan Raffo to be informed by other somatic pathways. I am supervised by Elizabeth Ross and am in political consultation with Sumitra Rajikumar.