Over 5 years of trainings, learnings, and experiences on land, with plants, and in community form the foundation of HUE.

Review a sample below.

Land Stewardship

  • Cultivating Healing Space on the Land

    As a member of the Edgewalker community and subsequent grantee of the Salmon Nation Edge Prize, I facilitated a community workshop to showcase and discuss the impact of our organization’s healing space work at Black Futures Farm and the Black Food Sovereignty Coalition.

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  • Healing Us: Black Agroecological Perspectives

    Through WWOOF-USA, I was selected to participate in the Future Farmers Grant program which partnered with the Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture to offer their Training in Applied Agroecology Program for all recipients. This is the final presentation of my learnings from the training and my farming experience at Mahalah Farms in Alabama. During this time, I was also conducting field work for my ethnographic project and my approach to this presentation reflects that.

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  • Healing from the Earth: How Black farmers utilize land and food sovereignty to restore health amid racial injustice

    In 2021, I began an ongoing mixed-methods research project entitled “Healing from the Earth: How Black farmers utilize land and food sovereignty to restore health amid racial injustice.” I use ethnographic research methods to illuminate food and land stewardship as integral to the liberation of Black people.

    I presented my preliminary research at two conferences: NYU Undergraduate Research Conference and Wake Forest University CAIR Conference on Inequality Research.

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Mindfulness

  • BIPOC Meditation Circles

    At a local community healing arts organization in Portland, I offered a donation based meditation circle for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color. This container cultivated collective healing, awareness, and rest for Black and Brown folks. Each week we practiced various mindfulness practices , equipping ourselves with the tools to navigate our inner and outer worlds with consciousness, grace, and love.

  • Restoring the Root: A Black Wellness Gathering

    This event featured different healing elements facilitated by Black femme practitioners in Portland, OR, who collectively shared their respective specialties to help guide communal connection during Black History Month. I led a root-centered meditation to support participants in connecting and honoring genetic, land, and spiritual ancestors. This was my first public offering through Healing Us Evergreen.

  • Guided Meditation and Natural Healing Talks at NYU

    In 2022, I began working with an Anthropology colleague to offer virtual meditations and mindfulness workshops for her high school and first year engineering students at the Tandon School to have additional space and tools to de-stress, rest, and rejuvenate. The flier above features one of several offerings.

  • Stay Woke & Meditate (now Soul Collective)

    As a Student Leader with New York University Global Spiritual Life’s MindfulNYU, I co-curated weekly gatherings that provided students of color interested in strengthening their meditation practice a space that honors and recognizes their sacred shared lived experiences. This also included co-crafting meditations on a weekly basis that were relevant to student experiences and happenings in local and global community. Here is where I started growing as a meditation gude.

Community Engagement

  • Echoing Green Community Groups

    As a Community Engagement Consultant for Echoing Green (NYC), I supported the Global Community team in rolling out their Affinity + Regional group community-building campaign for 900+ social innovators and entrepreneurs. I co-managed the group implementation plan including communications, community calendar events and campaign outreach via Salesforce.

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  • Coalition of Healthy School Food

    As a Community Coordinator, I supported the plant-based nutrition education initiatives in NYC schools and city-wide events as well as fundraising galas and donation campaigns. Most significantly, I spearheaded the largest data collection project compiling 11,000+ food service contacts for school food programs in 30+ states in order to increase knowledge exchange and to build a stronger school food network nationally.

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  • Breathing in S.T.E.A.M

    Through the Leadership Fellowship Program at NYU’s Leadership Institute, my team and I designed and implemented the workshop series, “Breathing in STEAM.” As a social impact project, the workshops were curated to provide accessible health and education opportunities to low-income students of color through an in-depth exploration of the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics fields, alongside hands on engineering experimentation and mindfulness practices.

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