Honoring the Land & Cultivating Equity: My Commitment to Social Impact

  • My Journey Towards Equity

  • Creating Inclusive Spaces for Transformation

I acknowledge with deep respect to the traditional custodians and wisdom keepers of the unceded Doeg land on which I work, steward, and live, as well as the wisdom keepers past, present and emerging. I honor their enduring connection to this place. I recognize the privilege of living and working on their ancestral territory.

My Journey Towards Equity and Inclusion:

My commitment to anti-racism and social justice is woven into the fabric of my life and business. It's a journey that began over two decades ago, fueled by a deep desire to create a more equitable and just world. I was working in the Washington, DC public mental health system with children and teens, who experienced sexual abuse, incest, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and/or discrimination around their sexual identifies, their families and the community. Serving the Black community as a white-bodied woman, initiated my reckoning process with my whiteness, white privilege, white fragility, and systemic racism and oppression in 2002.

I believe that true transformation requires acknowledging and dismantling systems of oppression. This involves:

  • Honest self-reflection: Continuously examining my own biases and privileges.

  • Lifelong learning: Seeking out diverse perspectives and engaging in ongoing education.

  • Actionable steps: Using my platform and resources to support marginalized communities and amplify their voices.

My process of unlearning my unearned privilege and dismantling whiteness (racist, oppressive and exclusionary structures and narratives) is lifelong. My commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, just-ness, joy, and aliveness is woven throughout my personal life and business and continues to evolve as I continue to unlearn with humility and a willingness to be called in, given feedback and corrected.

Giving Back to the Community

I'm dedicated to supporting organizations and initiatives that empower Global Majority: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. This includes:

  • Prioritizing donations to BIPOC-owned businesses and leaders.

  • Supporting maternal health initiatives for Black and Brown mothers and babies.

  • Providing scholarships and equity-based pricing for my coaching services.

  • Creating and facilitating transformative retreats for women in underserved and oppressed communities. You can donate to the the Global Women’s Leadership Community that I support here.

    Beginning in 2016, I invited my community to prioritize donating to local and global BIPOC women-owned businesses, creatives, and leaders through my offerings and newsletter. In 2022, I focused these donations to prenatal and perinatal health for Black and Brown mothers and babies in DC through Mamatoto Village's Capital Campaign and sponsored Black activists to teach in the region.

    In 2021, I attended a Legacy Trip with Tina Strawn, Corey Leak and Nandi K to The Legacy Museum from Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Prior to this trip, I had consistently offered scholarships to BIPOC in my private practice. Throughout my weekend in Alabama, I received a deeper calling to exclusively offer scholarships to Black Women CIS, Trans, Binary, Abinary, and Nonbinary.

    My equity based sliding scale model is ever evolving. When I began my private practice in 2009, I offered sliding scale slots to anyone who asked, which was one of my blind spots, as not everyone needed it. This took from other clients who actually needed the sliding scale.

    In 2021 with coaching and clinical supervision, I shifted my business model based on reparations and donut economic theory. My pro bono work includes women’s retreats for Black and Brown Women in South Africa and Lebanon. Many clients shared that they were sorry for asking for a discount when they actually didn’t need it, as they’d received high value badass outcomes for such a deal for years at low prices.

    After continued inquiry in 2023, I’m offering sliding scale equity-based pricing for group offerings, as informed by models of Simone Grace Seol and Alexis J. Cunningfolk, who has incredible resources no matter what your business model may be or if you’re a person in the world wanting to make change. My intention in offering this model is to share from a place of empowerment, rather than scarcity.

    My pricing values you, others, community, me, my family (as a single mother), and the work with understanding the impact of how we each carry class, capitalism, and the intersections of privilege and oppression within these systems.

Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces:

My work is grounded in creating safe, somatically trauma informed, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lens.
My intentions are to facilitate and build safety: physically, emotionally, spiritually, ethnically, racially, gender, and sexually.

  • Acknowledge and address power dynamics.

  • Cultivate a culture of dignity, respect, and belonging.

  • Center joy, aliveness, and authentic connection.

My Commitment to Growth:

I recognize that this is an ongoing journey, and I'm committed to continuous learning and growth. I welcome feedback and opportunities to deepen my understanding and further align my actions with my values.

While this work is potent, it isn’t as hard or heavy as you “think” it is or will be. My clients experience more aliveness, connection, laughter, levity, and joy no matter how we’re gathering.

Together, we can create a world where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.