C0mmitments 2 My Craft
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Ecstatic Mysticism March 2025
A three year training (700 hours) consisting of three pathways per year: 1) psychedelic medicine 2) death 3) liminality / madness
Voice, Body, and Song Workshop Dec 2024
Exploring the embodied voice through improvisation and deep listening with the Hinterlands
Aligning + Clearing the Chakras Dec 2024
with Lisa Johnson, LMT, ERYT at Irene’s Myomassology Institute
Detroit Peer Respite Training Nov 2024
Training to provide non-clinical care and emotional support to folks in crisis as an abolitionist alternative to involuntary hospitalization and the carceral system
Sharing Our Knowledge Conference Sept 2024
A multi-day symposium held in Sitka, AK that brought together Alaska Native and First Nations tradition bearers, elders, and fluent speakers of indigenous languages with artists, academics, researchers, and learners
Animism, Ancestors, and Psychedelics Aug 2024
Online course with Ancestral Medicine on working with plant medicines for familial and cultural healing
Radical Genealogy July 2024
Online training with David Dean through White Awake on research skills for liberatory ancestral recovery
Colonialism, Cultural Healing, and the Dead Winter 2024
Online course led by Pat McCabe, Butch Ware, and Daniel Foor through Ancestral Medicine on partnering with ancestors for decolonial work
An Introduction to Psychedelic Therapy Training Program January 2024
10-week training designed to help already existing professionals incorporate entheogens into their already existing healing/spiritual professional practices
Art Farm July 2023
Artist residency with farm work exchange in rural Nebraska
An Introduction to Embodied Ancestral Inquiry May 2023
An introductory workshop on the interdisciplinary approach that integrates neuroscience and trauma, critical and anti-colonial histories, and European folk traditions as a framework for understanding and transforming the roots of white supremacy.
Digital Age Advaya Course Spring 2023
6-week course taking a critical and in-depth look at where we find ourselves to better understand the lines along which power is operating in this age
Wounding of Whiteness Workshop Spring 2023
4-session workshop led by Tema Okun and the Psychedelic Liberation Collective
Psychedelic Liberation Training Winter 2023
10-Week certificate program for clinicians, facilitators, and space holders committed to decolonizing themselves, and their practice
Finca La Lluivia Apprencticeship Fall 2022
Writing apprenticeship with Aurora Levins Morales off-grid in Maricao, Puerto Rico
Materia Abierta Aug 2022
Month long summer school on theory, art, and Indigenous technologies and cosmologies based in Mexico City
Allied Media Conference July 2022
Presented 'Making Meaningful Content When Everyone's Exhausted'
Arts and Social Change Spring 2020
Study abroad program based in Prague, Czech Republic on art and activism with a studio art focus
Reel Girls Film Instructor Summer 2019
Created a media literacy curriculum and taught high schoolers professional camera work and editing software
Mayhew Program Arts Instructor Summer 2019
Taught beginning art and a filmmaking elective; created a supportive environment for systemically underserved boys ages 10-12 to develop self-esteem, connect with nature, and learn new coping strategies
James Joyce Summer School, University College Dublin July 2015
Each year scholars and lovers of Joyce gather from all corners of the globe to celebrate and analyse the work of this great writer; completed course with an A.
Awards
Grinnell College Bachelor of Arts Exhibition (BAX) Jurors’ Merit Award for Traces of Self (2021)
“Our Egypt” documentary selected for William & Mary Global Film Festival Student Film Competition (2016)
Short Story “Salt” published in Teen Ink, national monthly print magazine (2016) and won annual Fiction Contest