Workshops/Keynotes/Social Action:
Issues of social justice, particularly around race, culture, and religion, have led to designing programs that identify how contemplative strategies, particularly in an academic setting, allow for more open, just, and compassionate conversations around difficult topics. The following are examples of organizations/groups interested in how these issues can be addressed through the use of contemplative and restorative justice practices.
CRTL Conference 2023 – Hearts, Minds and Voices in Action – A Contemplative Journey, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (2023): Keynote Speaker
Journey and Returning: Body, Speech, and Mind in Action, ThorpeWood Retreat Center, Thurmont, MD (2023): Co-facilitator with Elaine Yuen
US Geological Survey Annual Program Meeting Team Building, Reston, VA (2022): Workshop Facilitator
Journeying and Returning: Meeting the Present Moment with Body, Speech, and Mind, Philadelphia Shambhala Center, Philadelphia PA (2022): Co-facilitator with Elaine Yuen
University Writing Program Symposium, University of Notre Dame, South Bend (2022): Workshop Co-facilitator with Paula Mathieu
Leading for Equity, Anti-Racism, and Diversity: Training and Coaching Series, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work, Virtual (2021 – ongoing until 2023): Coach: BIPOC and Staff Coaching Sessions
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Keystroke Writing Sessions and Writing Retreat, Virtual (2020-2023)
Pre-Workshop Sessions: Created 24 15-20-minute mindfulness practices prior to writing sessions: 4-Day Intensive Writing Workshop: Created 7 30-minute mindfulness practices
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Reframing Institutional Transformation to Include Non-Tenure Track STEM Faculty Institute, Virtual (2021) and 2022: Opening Workshop/Practices
STEM Women of Color Conclave: Let the Healing Begin, Virtual (2021- 2022):Workshops: “Root Work: Healing Wisdom” (2021)
“Merciful Surrender: Reimagining STEM as Spiritual Work” (2022)
Association for American Colleges & Universities: Teaching to Increases Diversity and Equity in STEM (TIDES) Institute, Virtual (2021) and 2022: Workshop: “Opening to Presence”
The Community College of Baltimore County, Contemplative Community Circle Mini-Conference, Virtual (2021): Keynote: “Fearlessness in Times of Fear”
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Diversity, Equity and Student Success: Upholding These Truths: Equity, Diversity, and Democracy Conference, Virtual (2021): Workshops: “Mindfulness Practice”
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Diversity, Equity and Student Success: Upholding These Truths: Equity, Diversity, and Democracy Conference, Virtual (2021): Workshops: “Mindfulness Practice”
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Transforming STEM Higher Education: THIS Changes Everything, Washington, DC, Virtual (2020): Workshops: Mindfulness Teachings and Meditations
SUNY New Paltz Faculty/Staff Contemplative Group, New Paltz, NY, Virtual (2020): Workshop: “Black Mindfulness: Liberatory Contemplative Wisdoms”
Mindfulness in Society Speakers Series, NHTI, Concord, NH , Virtual (2020): Workshop: “Mindfulness Intersections: Liberation Over Time”
The Open Table, Kansas City, MO, Virtual (2020); Workshop: “Rhythm Over Time”
Conference for Community Writing, Philadelphia, PA (2019): Workshop: “Presence Not Escape: Self-Care as Self-Activism:”
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: Imagine More, Orlando, FL (2019): Workshop: “Beyond Care: Compassion. Care. Communication”
Association for American Colleges and University, TIDES Conference, Los Angeles, CA (2019): Keynote/Workshop: Contemplative Pedagogy Strategies: Walking in a State of Awareness
Frederick P Lenz Fellow - Naropa University, Boulder, CO (2019): Keynote/Lecturer: Envisioning the Eightfold Path: Liberatory Practical Empowerment for African-American Faculty
1st Annual Black Mindfulness Summit, Wilmington, DE (2019): Co-designer/Co-facilitator
John Jay College, New York, NY (2019): Keynote/Workshop: “Creating Community: Collective Healing as Practice”
"Rooted in Community & Contemplative Practice Mini-Conference." Designer and Co-facilitator, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 10, 2018
"Week of Mindfulness." Designer and Co-facilitator, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 8-15, 2018
Featured Speaker, "Visioning Practice" Maryland's 7th Biennial Restorative Justice Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Nov 8-9, 2018
"Health-Care: Serenity and Wellness Retreat" for School of Health Professions, the Community College of Baltimore County, ThorpeWood Retreat Center, Thurmont, MD. Sept. 29, 2018
"Knowing & Growing: Creating and Sustaining Contemplative Communities" Webinar, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, April 27, 2018
Lecturer, "Self-Care for Pre-Med Students" for "The Role of Self-Care for Doctors and Other Healthcare Workers" course, Johns Hopkins University, April 25, 2018.
"Mindful Approaches to Health Care." The Community College of Baltimore County with the University of Virginia, Baltimore, MD, March 12, 2018.
Speaker, "Developing Empathy as Practice." TEDx Bergen County Community College, Paramus, NJ, March 7, 2018.
“Tapping into Yoga: A Mindful Tap and Yoga Workshop,” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA November 4, 2017
“Contemplative Practices for Community Work,” with Paula Matthieu, Boston College - Colorado University, Boulder, CO, The Conference on Community Writing: Engaging Networks and Ecologies” Colorado University, Boulder Oct 18-22, 2017
“Writing Our Radical Contemplative Narrative” retreat, members of Practical Empowerment: Creating Contemplative Communities with Students of Color” – Caboose Farm, Thurmont, MD, May 5, 2017.
“Student Contemplative Practices Retreat” Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, March 4, 2017.
“Transforming Perspectives: Contemplative Practices for Our Times” Community College of Baltimore County Contemplative Community Circle Retreat, ThorpeWood Retreat Center, Thurmont, MD, February 18, 2017.
“Practical Empowerment: Building Contemplative Communities With Students of Color Retreat” ThorpeWood Retreat Center, Thurmont, MD, January14, 2017.
“Let It Go: Practicing Compassionate Healing” – 2016 STEM Women of Color Conclave, Ellicott City, MD, September 17-19, 2016.
“The Mindful Classroom: Making Meaning, Setting Intentions” - Adjunct Summit: Technology Students Methods Changing to the Next Level – Prince George’s Community College Center for Professional Development, August 27, 2016.
“Creating a New Path: Mindfulness as Community and a Life Management Skill” and “Embodied Movement: Practicing Intersectionality” - 2016 Teaching to Increase Diversity and Equity in STEM, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, June 27-July 1, 2016.
“Teaching for a Mindful Future” - Community College of Baltimore County Ninth Annual Writing Exchange Symposium: Writing for Meaning, June 3, 2016.
“Creating a Compassionate Community: In the Classroom, Programming, and Professional Development” – Northern Kentucky University, April 1, 2016.
“Be.Still.Move: Being Culturally Responsive” – 11th Annual Summer Session of Contemplative Pedagogy, Smith College, Amherst, MA, August 2-7, 2015.
“Creating a New Path: Mindfulness & Stress Reduction” – Howard University Hospital First, Second, and Third Year Residents’ Retreat, November 4, 2015.
Conference Presentations:
"When Community Is Practice: Building A Contemplative Campus Community."
10th Annual ACMHE Conference, University of Massachusetts, Oct. 5-7, 2018.
"Building Contemplative Communities, Shared Journeys: Compassionate Teaching for Students of Color." Mindfulness in Education Network, University District of Columbia, March 16-18, 2018.
“Creating Space for Faculty Community in Troubled Times, Heart by Heart.” Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education, Denver, CO, June 13-17, 2017.
“Going Deep: The Art of Challenging Conversations: Looking, Seeing, Reflection, and Compassion Practices” Part 3 of 4 of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning-Sponsored professional development, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, April 4, 2017.
“Self-Care for Educators: A Response to The Bad Kids Documentary.” Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC, February 23, 2017.
February 7, 2017 – “Going Deep: The Art of Challenging Conversations: Introduction to Contemplative Pedagogy and Community” Part 1 of 4 of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning-Sponsored professional development, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, February 7, 2017.
“Contemplative Practices: Engaging Through Artful Meditation” Professional Development: Contemplative Practices in K-12, Arts Every Day and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, January 27, 2017.
“Mindful Classroom: When Self-Care Becomes Pedagogy” with members of the Contemplative Community Circle. Annual Teaching Learning Fair, The Community College of Baltimore County, MD, January 18, 2017..
“Seeing, Hearing, Knowing: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Contemplative Practices” - Community College of Baltimore County’s 3rd Annual Culturally Responsive Teaching Conference: Courageous Classrooms, November 4-5, 2016.
“Personal as Political: Towards Compassionate Selves, Just Campuses and Anti-Oppressive Communities” 8th Annual ACMHE Conference: Transforming Higher Education: Fostering Contemplative Inquiry, Community, and Social Action, UMass Amherst, October 7-9, 2016.
“Looking and Seeing: Contemplative Arts-Based Pedagogy” - Community College of Baltimore County 2016 Fall Focus, August 18, 2016.
“I Got My Mind Set on Learning: Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy” – Community College of Baltimore County Faculty Learning Communities Mini-Conference: Community Collaboration to Enhance Student Success, June 2, 2016.
“Playing With Movement: Embodying Knowledge” - Contemplative Practices for the 21st Century University, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, March 10-12, 2016.
“Practicing Intersectionality: Deeper Conversations” - 7th Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference, October 8-11, 2015.
“Be.Still.Move. Creative Contemplative Movement” - 6th Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference, Washington University, Seattle, Washington, October 10-2, 2014.
Training and Grants
I am the recipient of Naropa University's 2019 Frederick P. Lenz Residential Fellowship, Boulder, Colorado for "Visioning the Eightfold Path: Liberatory Contemplative Practical Empowerment for African-American Educators" January-May, 2019.
I was selected by the Mind & Life Summer Research Institute's "Engaging Cultural Difference and Human Diversity" as a Senior Investigator at Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY, from June 2-8, 2018.
I was the recipient of an Omega Institute Scholarship (one of ten) to attend the Contemplative Practice in Higher Education from September 23-25, 2016 for the Community College of Baltimore County’s personal and professional integration of contemplative practices in to the classroom;
I was a recipient of a Contemplative Mind in Society’s Building Communities Grant for “Practical Empowerment: Building Contemplative Communities With Students of Color” focuses on providing faculty/staff with compassionate insights into social and cultural interconnectedness through various contemplative practices fostering cohesion and community through contemplative pedagogy among students of color who might have inadequate second school preparations, disconnect between recent high school graduates and the rigor of academia, limited sense of belong on the college campus, personal biases, limited understanding of the challenges of first generation and low-income students, and student perspectives of faculty strategies to promote retentions for those attending CCBC, Virginia State University, Coppin State University, Howard University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of the District of Columbia;
I was one of 23 Contemplative Community Fellows for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society’s Building Communities Meeting initiative to support and develop contemplative communities on college and university campuses at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan from April 14-17, 2016.
I was one of 25 participants invited to Amherst College, Northampton, MA, in a discussion on race and contemplative pedagogy in higher education, sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society from April 16-18, 2015.
Boards/Committees
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, Board Member, Massachusetts, from 2018 - present
Coalition for Community Writer, Board Member, Boulder, CO, from 2017-present
Community Literacy Journal, Editorial Board, Boulder, CO, from 2017-2022
Culturally Responsive Teaching Conference Committee, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, from 2014 - present
Contemplative Practices for 21st Century Higher Education Conference Committee, George Mason and Virginia Tech Universities, VA, 2016
Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, Amherst and University of Massachusetts, MA, from 2015 - 2016.
Workshops/Keynotes/Social Action:
Issues of social justice, particularly around race, culture, and religion, have led to designing programs that identify how contemplative strategies, particularly in an academic setting, allow for more open, just, and compassionate conversations around difficult topics. The following are examples of organizations/groups interested in how these issues can be addressed through the use of contemplative and restorative justice practices.
CRTL Conference 2023 – Hearts, Minds and Voices in Action – A Contemplative Journey, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (2023): Keynote Speaker
Journey and Returning: Body, Speech, and Mind in Action, ThorpeWood Retreat Center, Thurmont, MD (2023): Co-facilitator with Elaine Yuen
US Geological Survey Annual Program Meeting Team Building, Reston, VA (2022): Workshop Facilitator
Journeying and Returning: Meeting the Present Moment with Body, Speech, and Mind, Philadelphia Shambhala Center, Philadelphia PA (2022): Co-facilitator with Elaine Yuen
University Writing Program Symposium, University of Notre Dame, South Bend (2022): Workshop Co-facilitator with Paula Mathieu
Leading for Equity, Anti-Racism, and Diversity: Training and Coaching Series, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work, Virtual (2021 – ongoing until 2023): Coach: BIPOC and Staff Coaching Sessions
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Keystroke Writing Sessions and Writing Retreat, Virtual (2020-2023)
Pre-Workshop Sessions: Created 24 15-20-minute mindfulness practices prior to writing sessions: 4-Day Intensive Writing Workshop: Created 7 30-minute mindfulness practices
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Reframing Institutional Transformation to Include Non-Tenure Track STEM Faculty Institute, Virtual (2021) and 2022: Opening Workshop/Practices
STEM Women of Color Conclave: Let the Healing Begin, Virtual (2021- 2022):Workshops: “Root Work: Healing Wisdom” (2021)
“Merciful Surrender: Reimagining STEM as Spiritual Work” (2022)
Association for American Colleges & Universities: Teaching to Increases Diversity and Equity in STEM (TIDES) Institute, Virtual (2021) and 2022: Workshop: “Opening to Presence”
The Community College of Baltimore County, Contemplative Community Circle Mini-Conference, Virtual (2021): Keynote: “Fearlessness in Times of Fear”
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Diversity, Equity and Student Success: Upholding These Truths: Equity, Diversity, and Democracy Conference, Virtual (2021): Workshops: “Mindfulness Practice”
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Diversity, Equity and Student Success: Upholding These Truths: Equity, Diversity, and Democracy Conference, Virtual (2021): Workshops: “Mindfulness Practice”
Association for American Colleges & Universities, Transforming STEM Higher Education: THIS Changes Everything, Washington, DC, Virtual (2020): Workshops: Mindfulness Teachings and Meditations
SUNY New Paltz Faculty/Staff Contemplative Group, New Paltz, NY, Virtual (2020): Workshop: “Black Mindfulness: Liberatory Contemplative Wisdoms”
Mindfulness in Society Speakers Series, NHTI, Concord, NH , Virtual (2020): Workshop: “Mindfulness Intersections: Liberation Over Time”
The Open Table, Kansas City, MO, Virtual (2020); Workshop: “Rhythm Over Time”
Conference for Community Writing, Philadelphia, PA (2019): Workshop: “Presence Not Escape: Self-Care as Self-Activism:”
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: Imagine More, Orlando, FL (2019): Workshop: “Beyond Care: Compassion. Care. Communication”
Association for American Colleges and University, TIDES Conference, Los Angeles, CA (2019): Keynote/Workshop: Contemplative Pedagogy Strategies: Walking in a State of Awareness
Frederick P Lenz Fellow - Naropa University, Boulder, CO (2019): Keynote/Lecturer: Envisioning the Eightfold Path: Liberatory Practical Empowerment for African-American Faculty
1st Annual Black Mindfulness Summit, Wilmington, DE (2019): Co-designer/Co-facilitator
John Jay College, New York, NY (2019): Keynote/Workshop: “Creating Community: Collective Healing as Practice”
"Rooted in Community & Contemplative Practice Mini-Conference." Designer and Co-facilitator, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 10, 2018
"Week of Mindfulness." Designer and Co-facilitator, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 8-15, 2018
Featured Speaker, "Visioning Practice" Maryland's 7th Biennial Restorative Justice Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Nov 8-9, 2018
"Health-Care: Serenity and Wellness Retreat" for School of Health Professions, the Community College of Baltimore County, ThorpeWood Retreat Center, Thurmont, MD. Sept. 29, 2018
"Knowing & Growing: Creating and Sustaining Contemplative Communities" Webinar, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, April 27, 2018
Lecturer, "Self-Care for Pre-Med Students" for "The Role of Self-Care for Doctors and Other Healthcare Workers" course, Johns Hopkins University, April 25, 2018.
"Mindful Approaches to Health Care." The Community College of Baltimore County with the University of Virginia, Baltimore, MD, March 12, 2018.
Speaker, "Developing Empathy as Practice." TEDx Bergen County Community College, Paramus, NJ, March 7, 2018.
“Tapping into Yoga: A Mindful Tap and Yoga Workshop,” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA November 4, 2017
“Contemplative Practices for Community Work,” with Paula Matthieu, Boston College - Colorado University, Boulder, CO, The Conference on Community Writing: Engaging Networks and Ecologies” Colorado University, Boulder Oct 18-22, 2017
“Writing Our Radical Contemplative Narrative” retreat, members of Practical Empowerment: Creating Contemplative Communities with Students of Color” – Caboose Farm, Thurmont, MD, May 5, 2017.
“Student Contemplative Practices Retreat” Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, March 4, 2017.
“Transforming Perspectives: Contemplative Practices for Our Times” Community College of Baltimore County Contemplative Community Circle Retreat, ThorpeWood Retreat Center, Thurmont, MD, February 18, 2017.
“Practical Empowerment: Building Contemplative Communities With Students of Color Retreat” ThorpeWood Retreat Center, Thurmont, MD, January14, 2017.
“Let It Go: Practicing Compassionate Healing” – 2016 STEM Women of Color Conclave, Ellicott City, MD, September 17-19, 2016.
“The Mindful Classroom: Making Meaning, Setting Intentions” - Adjunct Summit: Technology Students Methods Changing to the Next Level – Prince George’s Community College Center for Professional Development, August 27, 2016.
“Creating a New Path: Mindfulness as Community and a Life Management Skill” and “Embodied Movement: Practicing Intersectionality” - 2016 Teaching to Increase Diversity and Equity in STEM, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, June 27-July 1, 2016.
“Teaching for a Mindful Future” - Community College of Baltimore County Ninth Annual Writing Exchange Symposium: Writing for Meaning, June 3, 2016.
“Creating a Compassionate Community: In the Classroom, Programming, and Professional Development” – Northern Kentucky University, April 1, 2016.
“Be.Still.Move: Being Culturally Responsive” – 11th Annual Summer Session of Contemplative Pedagogy, Smith College, Amherst, MA, August 2-7, 2015.
“Creating a New Path: Mindfulness & Stress Reduction” – Howard University Hospital First, Second, and Third Year Residents’ Retreat, November 4, 2015.
Conference Presentations:
"When Community Is Practice: Building A Contemplative Campus Community."
10th Annual ACMHE Conference, University of Massachusetts, Oct. 5-7, 2018.
"Building Contemplative Communities, Shared Journeys: Compassionate Teaching for Students of Color." Mindfulness in Education Network, University District of Columbia, March 16-18, 2018.
“Creating Space for Faculty Community in Troubled Times, Heart by Heart.” Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education, Denver, CO, June 13-17, 2017.
“Going Deep: The Art of Challenging Conversations: Looking, Seeing, Reflection, and Compassion Practices” Part 3 of 4 of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning-Sponsored professional development, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, April 4, 2017.
“Self-Care for Educators: A Response to The Bad Kids Documentary.” Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC, February 23, 2017.
February 7, 2017 – “Going Deep: The Art of Challenging Conversations: Introduction to Contemplative Pedagogy and Community” Part 1 of 4 of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning-Sponsored professional development, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, February 7, 2017.
“Contemplative Practices: Engaging Through Artful Meditation” Professional Development: Contemplative Practices in K-12, Arts Every Day and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, January 27, 2017.
“Mindful Classroom: When Self-Care Becomes Pedagogy” with members of the Contemplative Community Circle. Annual Teaching Learning Fair, The Community College of Baltimore County, MD, January 18, 2017..
“Seeing, Hearing, Knowing: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Contemplative Practices” - Community College of Baltimore County’s 3rd Annual Culturally Responsive Teaching Conference: Courageous Classrooms, November 4-5, 2016.
“Personal as Political: Towards Compassionate Selves, Just Campuses and Anti-Oppressive Communities” 8th Annual ACMHE Conference: Transforming Higher Education: Fostering Contemplative Inquiry, Community, and Social Action, UMass Amherst, October 7-9, 2016.
“Looking and Seeing: Contemplative Arts-Based Pedagogy” - Community College of Baltimore County 2016 Fall Focus, August 18, 2016.
“I Got My Mind Set on Learning: Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy” – Community College of Baltimore County Faculty Learning Communities Mini-Conference: Community Collaboration to Enhance Student Success, June 2, 2016.
“Playing With Movement: Embodying Knowledge” - Contemplative Practices for the 21st Century University, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, March 10-12, 2016.
“Practicing Intersectionality: Deeper Conversations” - 7th Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference, October 8-11, 2015.
“Be.Still.Move. Creative Contemplative Movement” - 6th Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference, Washington University, Seattle, Washington, October 10-2, 2014.
Training and Grants
I am the recipient of Naropa University's 2019 Frederick P. Lenz Residential Fellowship, Boulder, Colorado for "Visioning the Eightfold Path: Liberatory Contemplative Practical Empowerment for African-American Educators" January-May, 2019.
I was selected by the Mind & Life Summer Research Institute's "Engaging Cultural Difference and Human Diversity" as a Senior Investigator at Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY, from June 2-8, 2018.
I was the recipient of an Omega Institute Scholarship (one of ten) to attend the Contemplative Practice in Higher Education from September 23-25, 2016 for the Community College of Baltimore County’s personal and professional integration of contemplative practices in to the classroom;
I was a recipient of a Contemplative Mind in Society’s Building Communities Grant for “Practical Empowerment: Building Contemplative Communities With Students of Color” focuses on providing faculty/staff with compassionate insights into social and cultural interconnectedness through various contemplative practices fostering cohesion and community through contemplative pedagogy among students of color who might have inadequate second school preparations, disconnect between recent high school graduates and the rigor of academia, limited sense of belong on the college campus, personal biases, limited understanding of the challenges of first generation and low-income students, and student perspectives of faculty strategies to promote retentions for those attending CCBC, Virginia State University, Coppin State University, Howard University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of the District of Columbia;
I was one of 23 Contemplative Community Fellows for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society’s Building Communities Meeting initiative to support and develop contemplative communities on college and university campuses at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan from April 14-17, 2016.
I was one of 25 participants invited to Amherst College, Northampton, MA, in a discussion on race and contemplative pedagogy in higher education, sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society from April 16-18, 2015.
Boards/Committees
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, Board Member, Massachusetts, from 2018 - present
Coalition for Community Writer, Board Member, Boulder, CO, from 2017-present
Community Literacy Journal, Editorial Board, Boulder, CO, from 2017-2022
Culturally Responsive Teaching Conference Committee, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, from 2014 - present
Contemplative Practices for 21st Century Higher Education Conference Committee, George Mason and Virginia Tech Universities, VA, 2016
Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, Amherst and University of Massachusetts, MA, from 2015 - 2016.