Note: This is an abridged CV - a description of where I have learned, practiced, and taught. For CV and publications visit, www.academia.edu. For faculty bio, visit here.
Learning + Education
Critical Food, Health, and Environmental Studies
Post-Doctoral Fellowship / Medical College of Wisconsin / Focus: Black holistic health and healing
PhD, Geography / University of Texas at Austin / Focus: Black youth, food, and gentrification
MA, Latin American Studies / University of Texas at Austin/ Focus: Afromexican medicinal plant knowledge
BA, English Rhetoric and Spanish / Focus: Rio Grande water politics
Spirituality, Oldways & Holistic Healing
Starr King School for the Ministry, interfaith chaplaincy training and MDiv in progress (2023-Present)
Rootwork apprentice - School of Good Juju, funded by grant from Wisconsin Arts Board (2019-2020)
Ceremony, meditation, and circle work facilitator (2008-present)
Reiki Master Level - Pathfinder Reiki (2009)
Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy - Sundara Yoga Therapy (2016)
Overcoming Anxiety Facilitator - Sundara Yoga Therapy (2016)
Community Organizing & Advocacy
Critical food justice education (Food for Black Thought - co-founder) (2012-2016)
Food and racial justice organizing and policy advocacy (2011-present)
Undoing Racism Training - People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (2012)
Methods Training
Critical Participatory Action Research Training - Public Science Project (2012)
Oral History Training - Southern Foodways Alliance (2012)
Member of
UCSC Black Geographies Lab (Co-Faculty Advisor with Drs. Camilla Hawthorne, Savannah Shange, and James Doucet-Battle)
Race in the Marketplace Network (Board Member and Communications Co-Chair)