Welcome! On this website, you can learn about my practice, why you might work with me as a mediator, consultant, guest artist or trainer (kind words from clients/collaborators here), and my creative writing (poetry, lyric essays, hybrid and experimental work). My book is out with Teachers College Press! Click on the images below to read, listen, and watch:
Interview with former student, Citlali Sánchez Udovic, for Project 510's Fishbowl Podcast. Click below to listen to the episode on Restorative Justice and Mental Health:
EdSource feature on Restorative Justice at Fremont High School in East Oakland, California
"A Mirror, A Threshold, A Song": interfacing with criminal-legal system, violence, brain injury, healing through theater & embodiment
My Services & Specializations
Conflict Mediation
Organizational Conflict/Harm Response Protocol and System Design
Grappling with power and navigating hierarchical structure for non-profit managers who come from social movements and believe in horizontal leadership
Retreat Facilitation
Professional Development for school districts, site leaders, teachers, and classified education staff in culture & climate, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, restorative practices, and student leadership
Participatory Action Research training, coaching, or direct facilitation
Popular Education training, coaching, or direct facilitation
Equitable Youth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership
Organizational Death/Transition Doula to accompany you in navigating grief and closure
Arts Education; applied arts especially theater; using theater and embodiment to heal, activate, and unpack oppressive systems
Curriculum design
Strategic planning, mission/vision creation, organizational health and culture including equity audits
Teachers, Lineages, Skillsets & Guiding Frameworks
Paolo Freire, Popular Education & Participatory Action Research, Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed, Combahee River Collective, Silvia Federici, Selma James, Marxist Feminism, Transformative Justice, Shira Hassan, Mimi Kim, INCITE! Women and Trans People of Color Against Violence, Sistas Liberated Ground, Harm Free Zones, Critical Resistance, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Badal Sircar, the Third Theatre, Arka Mukhopadhyay, Physical Theater, Alternative Living Theatre, Intimate Theater, Bibhaban, Jerzy Grotowski, June Jordan, Mahasweta Devi, Bauls and Fokirs of Bengal, caste abolition, Ambedkarite organizations in the diaspora and homeland, Mia Mingus, Restorative Justice, Community-Based Non-Legal Conflict Mediation, Non-Carceral Harm Response, Alternatives to Incarceration, Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Prison Abolition, Counter-Militarism & Truth-in-Recruiting, Susan Quinlan, Pablo Paredes, Ty Marshall, Abe Velazquez, Spoken Word Poetry, Saul Williams, Drama Therapy, Psychodrama, Playback Theater, Self-Revelatory Performance, capoeira, Kalaripayattu, chhau nach, Qigong, decolonial dharma, youth leadership, youth development, intergenerational partnership, and many more including countless students & collaborators.