Learning Lineage & Communities
Training & Development
Creative Facilitator Training with Jewish Studio Project, 2022-2024
Do Your Lessons Love Your Students? with Studio Pathways, 2022
Art of Facilitation with Studio Pathways, 2022
Using Art to Support Healing, Trauma-Informed & Healing Centered Art Facilitator Training with AWBW, 2022
Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference in Chicago: Popular Power/Poder Popular, 2022
Arts, Media, Entertainment (AME) Institute, 2020
PBS & KQED Media Literacy Educator Certification, 2020
Unpacking Social Justice Standards Conference with Teaching Justice, 2019
Educating for Careers Conference, 2015-2018
Education
English Teaching Credential, School of Education, Loyola Marymount University, 2015-2016
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism & Marketing, Schools of Communications & Business, American University, 2011-2013
Oakton Community College, 2010-2011
Classes & Workshops
Theatre of the Oppressed with Jiwon Chung at Berkeley Rep, 2022-23
Free Your Voice with Phoenix Song, 2022
Improv at All Out Comedy, 2022-23
Understanding Grief & Loss Through Collage, Facilitator Enrichment Training with Annecy Báez, Ph.D, LCSW, hosted by AWBW, 2022
Collage Exploration with Zsudayka Nzinga, 2021
Harness Your Wholeness Retreat with Anastasia Schemkes and Natalie Davenport, 2021
Body Literacy with Cera Merrick, 2021
Jewish Protection Magic with Dori Midnight, 2021
Israel & Palestine Conversations with Resetting the Table, 2021
Writing for Power & Resiliency with Thea Matthews, 2021
Using Racial Affinity Spaces in Schools, 2020
Learning Communities
L’Shem Kedushat: Demystifying Jewish Sacred Arts Retreat, 2024
Avodah Justice Fellowship, 2023-2024
Crossing the Sea Together: Jewish Ancestral Healing for Collective Liberation with White Awake, 2023
Cycles of Rest, Release, and Liberation: Antiracism and Shemitah as Spiritual Practice with Yavilah McCoy and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, 2022
Jewish Ancestral Healing with Taya Mâ and Jewish Dreamwork with Jill Hammer at Kohenet, 2022
Writing & Illustrating Children’s Books with Storyteller Academy, 2021
Study & Action with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), 2021
Body Liberation Cohort: I Have a Body with Talia Cooper, 2021
Teaching for Black Lives / Black Lives Matter in Schools / White Educator Accountability Study & Action Group, 2021
Accomplice Academy with Mira Stern, 2021
Mentor/Anchor Texts
(Education)
((also of the heart & spirit))
Lessons in Liberation: Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators edited by The Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective
We Want To Do More Than Survive by Bettina L. Love
Do Your Lessons Love Your Students? by Mariah Rankine-Landers and Jessa Brie Moreno
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
Theatre for Community, Conflict & Dialogue by Michael Rohd
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
Teaching for Black Lives edited by Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian & Wayne Au
Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education by Lois Hetland
Mentor/Anchor Texts
(of the heart & spirit)
Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Liberated to the Bone by Susan Raffo
Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams by Jill Hammer
Love & Rage by Lama Rod Owens
Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, and We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
Praying with the Earth by John Phillip Newell
Sustaining Spirit by Naomi Ortiz
The Activist's Tao Te Ching by William Martin
All About Love by bell hooks
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Phd
There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists by Cindy Milstein
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared by Rabbi Alan Lew
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
Read & Riot by Nadya Tolokonnikova