I am grateful to all those whose footsteps I walk in…

My ancestors are Ashkenazi Jews from Warsaw, Poland and Panyaveys & Vilna, Lituania.

I was raised by an artist and a community organizer and draw on these roots in all that I do.

I grew up in New York City, to which I attribute my grit.

I found home amidst the woods of western Massachusetts where I attended Hampshire College.

Karen Warren showed me feminist anti-racist experiential leadership through her words, actions and invitation to join her.

Bashier Kayou and Shirley McGill opened my eyes to the intricate and interlocking systems of oppression that I have dedicated my life to dismantling.

I earned a Master’s Degree in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where I had the privilege of working with & learning from Donna San Antonio & Ulrich Johnson, among many others.

My ancestors guided me to the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute where I was ordained a Kohenet/Hebrew Priestess and given the title, She Who Heals Across Time. I am deeply grateful to my teachers: Rabbi Jill Hammer, Taya Ma Shere, Shosana Jedwab and Keshira Ha Lev Fife.

I trained as a Spiritual Director with fabulous teachers and spiritual leaders Marchaé Grair and Molly Bolton through Still Harbor .

I completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education under the guidance and wisdom of Rev Mary Martha Thiel through Hebrew Senior Life.

The multiracial movement community of Boston gave me a home in which to sharpen my edges & build chosen family.

The Evolutionary Leadership Community invited me on the wild path to liberation and offered me open arms in which to heal and soften those edges.

For the past 24 years I’ve built community and family on unceded Massachusett & Wampanoag land, now known as Boston.

About me

I am a politicized healer, learning to unbraid the interlocking systems of white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism from my body and braid in with my ancestors, the earth, the sacred in their wake. My path has been one of ancestral recovery & reclamation. Of remembering who I am and who my people were before we assimilated into whiteness.

For the past 20+ years, I’ve served in leadership roles in grassroots community organizations, building liberatory intergenerational communities rooted in a commitment to working together for justice.

I am a Queer white Ashkenazi Jew co-conspiring with my ancestors on the path to collective liberation. I am a mother, a daughter, an ancestor in training, as well as an educator, a community weaver, an ordained Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) and a healer. I tend to my own and others’ hearts with great care, gently rubbing healing balm into the broken pieces so they may become whole.