Experience

• San Francisco State University

  Consultant

  - Special Projects Consultant
  This position was developed to ensure the completion of several critical projects within the organization. Responsibilities include staff/organizational development, Best Practices Program development, and facility improvement planning and management

• San Francisco State University

  Culture and Arts Director, Richard Oakes Multicultural Center, San Francisco State University

  The Richard Oakes Multicultural Center's mission is to provide a collaborative and supportive environment that promotes a multi-ethnic, culturally conscious University that affirms equally the human and intellectual heritage of all people. Through its departments and programs, the Center provides support and guidance in developing methods and strategies for effective engagement to strengthen alliances among different groups/communities.

• San Francisco State University

  Lecturer/Adjunct Professor

  Department of Elementary Education, College of Education
  • Developmental Teaching and Learning in Diverse Settings (783)
  • Working with Families in Group Settings (604)
  
  Working with Families in Group Settings (604) offers important insight on social and cultural values and norms within a service-oriented context, and considers these values when working with parents, students and the community representing diverse groups. Research and experience-based principles of effective teaching and learning practices were explored to give authenticity and meaning to the phenomena.
  
  Lecturer, Dept. of Africana Studies, College of Ethnic Studies,
  Fall 2006 – Spring 2007.
  • Black Child Development (525); and Teaching the Black Experience (650)
  
  These courses, focus on the development of African-American children by analyzing culture, identity-development, learning styles, health and various social and economic impacts on their intellectual, spiritual and social development.

• Performance Fact, Inc.

  Senior Associate

  This organization's work is to focus leaders on strong results for students, through continuous improvement of teaching practices, leadership practices and organizational practices.
  My primary focus was to guide educators on culturally-relevant teaching and learning strategies and to foster cultural competency of educators at all levels.

• Ascend Institute for Educational Change

  Founder and Executive Director

  ASCEND is a non-profit professional development organization, designed to facilitate the process of reflective critical analyses to promote self-awareness, definition of educational issues, and collaborative change for excellence in education. Through its workshop sessions, educators gain beneficial information for insightful and logical questioning of the values, beliefs, experiences and socialization related to learning and self-efficacy, and how these elements effect the educational outcomes of their students. Previous contracts included Los Angeles Unified School District and West Contra Costa Unified School District.

• The Goddess Commune

  Founder & Executive Director

  The Goddess Commune is a wellness movement designed to address health disparities for black women and other women of color. We create healing spaces through holistic medicine, rootwork, herbalism, womb wellness, art and movement therapy, etc.
  
  Our collaborators bring holistic and ancestral knowledge to help womyn “re-remember” past ways of self-preservation and self-healing from both individual and historical trauma and “dis-ease”.
  Learn more at: www.thegoddesscommune.org
  Follow us on Instagram: @The Goddess Commune