The Liminal Lab…
My political framework is a braid across cultural organizing, prison abolition, and class solidarity. I believe that in the United States context, race has long been weaponized to prevent solidarity from being built across class, and that in building said solidarity, the systems creating division cannot be the same ones communities demand their healing from. I believe that we have actions that enable solidarity and actions that prevent it— studying histories of labor and resistance allow us to actively and critically co-educate and decision-make towards a unified future.
I practice restorative justice, harm reduction, and grief work, a triad of practices that at their core, offer alternative methods of healing that of course, can be applied to their typical practices of justice, substance abuse, and end-of-life, respectively, but can also offer incredible frameworks for how we reimagine society, at large.
My facilitation practice largely stems from moments of learning that I have undergone in friendship. This companionship is my most valuable form of education, and the ultimate place from which I build my politics. I will forever be excited about why humans gather when the illusion of money is not in the picture. My closest people offer me answers to that question, daily.
Facilitations, Workshops, and Trainings
I build and facilitate workshops and trainings, centering topics from Restorative and Transformative Justice Practices, Frameworks for Abolition, Cultural Organizing, Youth Organizing, and People Power Building through the Expressive Arts.
Created from a history of abolitionist organizing practices, and a desire to turn interpersonal learnings into communal questionings and experiences, I works to build lines of understanding intra-communally. Dedicated deeply to building relationship-centered people power and a vision for society that is dignified and inclusive for all, these workshops and trainings are both loving and rigorous, touching on both the essence of shared humanity, but also the smaller steps we can commit to in making better conditions across society.
Past work has included facilitations with The American Civil Liberties Union, City-as-School, Cornell University’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Drive Change, the Department of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, Make the Road NY, MayDay Space, The Moth, The New Jersey State Bar Foundation, The New York Public Library, NYU’s Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, Office of The New York City Public Advocate, The Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Rustic Pathways, Sakhi for South Asian Women, The Urban Youth Collaborative, UC Berkeley’s Geography Department, and Youth Represent.