Community

Everything I do in my personal and working life centers around one concept: togetherness. I labor tirelessly each day to find new ways to help people reflect, heal, and build themselves, with the aim of helping us find more collective agency, interpersonal support, and connection. This is my life-work: to help us understand that our choices have tangible effects on our surroundings, that through self-awareness and other personal skills, we can measurably impact how the world around us is shaped.

Over the past several years, I have completed this work primarily through intuit.hue, an online space which provides resources for emotional and personal skillbuilding, as well as being a place which encourages rest and provides affirmations. I have designed workshops, written books and articles, led educational nonprofits, provided online and in-person classes, and worked directly with community members in guiding their own personal reflection, healing, and liberation. The majority of my work centers around concepts such as agency, trust, communication, vulnerability, processing trauma, and other relational practices.

I am passionate about helping us reclaim words such as "dependence" and "togetherness", to understand that inter-dependence isn't a negative, but simply a fact of how we relate to one another; everything we do - even (or especially) the small things we often don't think about, such as how our food gets to our table - is interconnected and requires community. All of our choices are built on (informed by) those around us and those who came before us. By understanding that we live interconnectedly, we can begin to make choices which are aligned with interpersonal awareness, which contribute intentionally to building a world which thinks and feels and cares more.

That work of educating, supporting, and guiding - of doing my part to build a together world - is what I have committed my life to.

• Founder, Central Editor, & Lead Guide at intuit.hue

  • Providing a number of healing and reflective resources, all crafted to nourish personal, emotional, and spiritual wellness; helping others feel more alive, whole, and empowered in their day to day lives through skill-building

  • Guiding writing process from ideation to publishing, editing articles, eBooks, and educational course content, collaborating with multiple creators; developing mostly online workshops and courses for multiple skill levels

    • Published books:

      • quiet, quiet - Stories of Healing from the Margins, I (hands)

      • The Intuit Oracle - Guidebook

      • Hues Within: Healing Self + Body through Color Therapy

    • Published article & guide examples:

      • A Quick-Guide to Accountable Healing and Conflict Resolution

      • 3 Ways to Use Color Therapy for Healing + Wellness in Your Life

      • No More Boundaries - Vulnerability as Radical, Political Healing

      • Self-Care Kit: 4 Tools to Practice Care When Feeling Overwhelmed

• Developer, Designer, & Content Creator at ahn.makes

  • Creating content centered around tech and game development, with a strong focus on education: making these subjects accessible to more people, removing barriers and hoping to inspire

Community Experience

• Mentorship Chair and Co-President of LingoKids: Carolina Language Outreach

  • Maintained nonprofit organisation's activities and educational initiatives aligned with its intentions, serving the Chapel Hill-Carrboro (and other local) communities through second-language education in elementary schools

  • Guided all processes of organising, training, and supporting mentors (volunteer language instructors), from designing age-appropriate curriculums and team/project management to helping first-time mentors feel inspired, assured, and prepared in their classroom instruction

• Facilitator for Black Autonomous Healing Space

  • Helped prepare space for Black community individuals to come and work through difficulties or trauma, as well as providing space for sharing joys and laughter

  • Guided reflections, meditations, discussions, and other activities centered around reclaiming autonomy, exploring Blackness, and uncovering collective historical traumas

Recognition & Awards

• Awarded Grow with Google scholarship; selected as student ambassador, recognised for educational initiative and commitment to guiding other students (2018)

• Recognised with Community Engagement Award from UNC-Chapel Hill Dean's Office for my commitment to service, along with educational and activist efforts in the university; specifically nominated for founding DAY, an organisation in which I introduced hundreds of students and community members to traditionally underrepresented issues and implemented direct changes to campus policy through inspiring students towards collective action

• Awarded Global Gap Year Fellowship, highly-competitive opportunity to travel and volunteer for a year abroad; after proposing a plan and budget to request funding, then coordinating internationally with volunteer organisations – all at the young age of 18 – I began my work as an English teacher, designing a language curriculum for 300+ elementary, middle, and high-school students in Brazil and Argentina

• Received ReImagine Rural Youth Engagement Award, invited to speak at conference on how to get youth to actively engage in local issues within their communities