Shlomo was awarded a scholarship to pursue a M.A. in International Relations at New York University, where he focuses on Palestinian liberation, decoloniality, settler colonialism, membership beyond citizenship and moving beyond the postcolonial liberal frameworks of sovereignty that uphold the exclusionary politics and logics of nationalism, racial-capitalism and cis-heteropatriarchy. His interests include examining intergenerational trauma and resilience, ancestral connection, indigenous and de-colonial knowing and examining grief work and rage as a portal to communal transformation and restoration. Shlomo is an experienced transcendental meditator and is interested in whole-listic health paradigms that include song, yoga nidra, deep listening, and intentionally connecting to rage as a way reclaim "dark emotions” and unlearn white colonial modernity. Informed by the Jewish mystical teachings of the Zohar and Rabbi Isaac Luria/The Ari'zl, Shlomo believes in the generative power of shattering and repair, and he believes in both sweetening “judgment at its source” and in “sweetening the bitter water with the bitter herb” by intentionally descending into our dark and bitter emotions such as grief, shame, fear and anger and into the shattered parts of ourselves, to reveal a sweetness and a newfound sense of wholeness that includes bitterness and brokenness.