built for belonging, joy & justice

as a serial social impact entrepreneur— I am committed to building organizations, initiatives, and creative ecosystems that move us toward collective liberation.
Each project I launch is rooted in love, imagination, and a deep belief in the transformative power of community, culture, and healing.

Whether it’s a joyful learning lab, a sound-centered workshop, or a national movement for liberation through joy, my work is designed to scale impact without losing soul. I don’t just strive to build brands—I strive to build frequencies for belonging.

here are some projects I am involved in below

Logo with four overlapping leaves, each featuring a different symbol: a meditating person, a brain, a heart, and a spiral, with the words "Healing-Centered Collaborative" around the top and bottom.
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  • Founder + Chief Enthusiasm Officer

    A cultural design studio and educational justice platform that curates events, workshops, coaching, and curriculum through a healing-centered lens. Just Experience exists to help communities thrive, transform, and tune into joy—one beat, one breath, one breakthrough at a time.

  • Co-Founder

    A youth-led, joy-rooted movement that reframes happiness as resistance and healing as activism. Project Happyvism offers storytelling workshops, curriculum design, and community installations to affirm joy as a human right.

    “Happyvism is not about pretending things are okay—it’s about reclaiming joy as a site of survival and strategy.”

  • Co-Founder

    The Healing-Centered Collaborative is a visionary ecosystem I co-founded to help individuals, teams, and communities move from cycles of burnout and harm toward wholeness, purpose, and collective vitality.

    We cultivate transformative tools, research, and learning experiences that blend:

    • Ancestral wisdom

    • Digital innovation

    • Healing-centered leadership strategy

    Together, we empower a network of educators, creatives, and changemakers to lead lives that are sustainable, spirit-filled, and socially impactful.

    We’re not just healing—we're designing new rhythms of possibility.

publications

publications

  • Co-Author

    Using Hip-Hop Practices to Foster College and Career Readiness

    This chapter explores how hip-hop can be used as a culturally sustaining, healing-centered practice to prepare students for life beyond the classroom. We offer real-world strategies for educators and counselors to reimagine college and career readiness through freestyle, storytelling, beat-making, and cypher-based learning—centering identity, agency, and liberation.

  • co-author

    Happyvism is a joyful children’s book that reclaims happiness as a form of activism. Through vibrant storytelling and powerful visuals, this book invites young readers—and the grown folks who love them—to embrace joy as a radical, healing, and culturally grounded choice. It’s a celebration of self-love, community pride, and choosing light even in the face of struggle.

  • Co-author

    This research explores how early-career teachers develop informal leadership identities and practices within school communities. Grounded in educator voice and lived experience, the study highlights how teachers navigate power, culture, and change-making during their first six years in the profession—often shaping school climate beyond their formal roles.

Doctoral CAPSTONE

Doctoral CAPSTONE

From Flow To Frequency: Finding Rhythm in Healing-Centered Inquiry

The Transformative Power of Healing-Centered Research, Youth Development, & Leadership

Doctorate of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) capstone

Abstract

This capstone explores the transformative possibility of healing-centered frameworks through a strategic project that aimed to scale Flourish Agenda’s Akili Youth Development Model and advance Emancipatory Inquiry as a healing-centered research practice. Flourish Agenda is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming schools, youth-serving organizations, and communities by fostering well-being for young people of color. Grounded in the principles of Healing-Centered frameworks, Flourish Agenda challenges deficit-based models by centering culture, agency, relationships, meaning, aspirations, joy, and community connection as essential elements of healing.

Rooted in the guiding question, What is required to scale healing?, this project integrates elements of design thinking, healing-centered frameworks, and DJ rhetoric to create conditions for sustainable, healing-centered change. Drawing inspiration from the art of DJing—remixing the art of social change—this capstone presents leadership as an adaptive practice that requires moving between flow and frenzy. Just as a DJ curates soundscapes by sampling, blending, and improvising, this project emphasizes emergent leadership as a creative process of remixing strategies, practices, and approaches to foster healing and transformation.

This strategic project unfolds across two primary outcomes:

1) Developing and scaling an Akili Youth Development Model

and

2) Documenting culturally-based healing practices to develop and scale Healing-Centered Research. 

This capstone explores the challenges of navigating a fast-growing organization, the tension between honoring legacy and innovation, and the complexity of measuring healing outcomes in meaningful ways. Drawing from DJ literacy, this project reframes leadership as a dynamic process of remixing—blending ancestral wisdom, community voice, and institutional knowledge to create transformative change. 

Ultimately, this project invites healing-centered leadership as both a personal commitment and a collective practice. By embracing the principles of flow, rhythm, and emergent strategy, this work seeks to inspire educational leaders, youth-serving organizations, and community partners to remix learning environments as ecosystems of healing, joy, and liberation.