ME

Fides et Amor
  • Interoception
  • Enneagram Type 4
  • Mystic Empath
  • INFP-T
  • Multipod
  • 2315 born Scorpio
  • Die, Transform, and Soar
  • The Waning Moon and the North

Values

~ D I A L O G U E ~

  • Discovery
  • Integrity
  • Adaptability
  • Loyalty
  • Originality
  • Grace
  • Uniqueness
  • Expressive

Strengths

~ P R E S E N C I N G ~

  • Positivity
  • Responsibility
  • Empathy
  • Spiritual
  • Energy
  • Navigation
  • Courage
  • Includer
  • Noticing inside
  • Generosity

Engagement

  • Child Health is Planetary Health (CHIP)
  • PlaHNet – Planetary Health Network of Young Professionals
  • Plant Technology Alliance (pta)
  • Social-emotional Learning and Civic Engagement (SEL-CE)
  • GW Planet Forward
  • Real Food Collective
  • Food Recovery Network
  • UMass Permaculture Initiative
  • UMass Women’s Choir
  • Western Massachusetts Health Equity Network
  • CMASS (Center for Multicultural Advance and Student Success)

Licenses

  • Certified Health Coach and Life Coach by Health Coach Institute (USA) 2023
  • Mindfulness at Work issued by the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing 2021
  • Certificate of pta (plant technology alliance) 90 days spiritual growth camp 2020
  • Professional Certificate in Leadership for Sustainable Food Systems by the University of Vermont 2018

Fellowships

  • School for Ecological Justice- NYC Eco Practicum 2018
  • Five College Adventure – Applied Humanities Learning Lab 2016
  • Middlebury FoodWorks – Exploring Food Systems 2015

Honors

  • The Five College Certificate in Culture, Health, and Science issued by Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst 2017
  • Certificate in Civic Engagement and Public Service issued by UMass Amherst 2017
  • Senior Leadership Award issued by UMass Amherst Alumni Association 2017

A Curious Spiritual-Being travels in the universe of love & abundance

Chesed, Creativity, Tenacity, Gratitude

compass

Practical wisdom

Spiritual wellbeing

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education

The Fletcher School at Tufts University (USA) 2018-2021
Master of Arts in Global Affairs

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland) 2020
Cross-disciplinary studies on global health; environment, resources and sustainability

University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) 2013-2017
Bachelor of Science in Public Health Sciences

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Participation

• Capra Course – The Systems View of Life taught by Fritjof Capra in Spring 2022

• Unite for Sight 18th Annual Global Health & Innovation Virtual Conference on April 8-11, 2021

• Event planning for MIT Water Summit 2019: Drowning in Plastic on November 21-22, 2019 (https://www.mitwatersummit.com/water-summit-2019-1)

• Attended Planetary Health 3rd Annual Meeting at Stanford University on September 4-6, 2019

• Awarded to attend inVIVO 2019 Planetary Health 8th Annual Conference in Detroit on May 15-17, 2019

• The inaugural Hacking Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on April 20, 2019

• Participated in the MGH Institute of Health Professions Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health (“Reducing the Impact of Climate Change on Health”) on April 6, 2019

• Volunteered for GCWS Graduate Student Conference Interrogating Self-Care: Bodies, Personhood, and Movements in Tumultuous Times at MIT Stata Center on March 29-30, 2019

• Organized “Technologies of resistance: towards feminist futures” at MIT 2019-2020 (virtual)

• Tufts Food Systems Symposium – Possible Food Futures: Food Tech in Dialogue with Food Justice on October 18, 2019

• 6th Annual Food is Medicine Symposium hosted by the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School on October 25, 2018

• 15th annual Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 14-15, 2018

• Tufts Food Systems Symposium: Unintended Consequences – The Problem with “Solutions” on April 6, 2018

• “Global Health and Aging” State of Global Health Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on March 29, 2018

• 6th Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference at Bunker Hill Community College on March 17, 2018

• 11th Annual SEMAP Ag & Food Conference at Bristol County Agricultural High School on February 25, 2018

• The Fifth Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies on February 23-24, 2018

• Urban Farming and Food Justice: Karen Washington at The Harvard Law​ Forum on February 22, 2018

• Food is Medicine discussion with Jean Terranova at Harvard Global Health and Health Policy Conference Room on February 21, 2018

• Volunteer for NOFA Vermont Winter Conference at University of Vermont on February 17-18, 2018

• The 2nd Annual Global Food+ Symposium hosted by Tufts University at Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy on February 16, 2018

• Pioneer Valley Grows Racial Equity Co-Learning Winter Dialogues on Racial Equity and the Local Food System at the United Church of Christ in Holyoke on February 13, 2018

• Campus Farmer Summit: “What’s Growing on Your Campus?” at Stonehill College on February 10, 2018

• Celebrated Human Rights Day with Congressman Jim McGovern hosted by Amherst Amnesty International at Jones Library on December 10, 2017

• Humanizing the Food System: It Takes a Region Conference hosted by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group in Baltimore on November 9-11, 2017

• The First Annual Holyoke Food Justice Conference at Holyoke Community College on May 6, 2017

• Presented Honors Thesis “Reducing Food Waste and Combating Hunger using Food Trucks” at the 23rd Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference on April 28, 2017

• The 10th Annual Rooting D.C. Urban Gardening Forum on February 18, 2017

• Planning Committee for the 2nd Western Mass Health Equity Summit hosted by the School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) at UMass Amherst on November 18, 2016

• Fighting Hunger Dialogue with Congressman Jim McGovern at Amherst Survival Center on October 26, 2016

• Real Food Generation National Food Justice Summit at University of Georgia on September 23-26, 2016

• 12th Annual Sustainability Summit at Smith College on September 17, 2016

• Northeast Organic Farming Association Summer Conference – Cultivating the Organic Grassroots Movement at UMass Amherst on August 12-14, 2016

• Participated in the 1st D.C. Community Food Justice Workshop on August 4, 2016

• Washington D.C. the First Food Policy Council Meeting on August 3, 2016

• Reduce and Recover: Save Food for People Symposium at Harvard Law School on June 28-29, 2016

• 5th Annual Food Systems Summit “What Makes Food Good?” at University of Vermont on June 14-15, 2016

• Springfield Food Policy Council 7th Annual Meeting on May 25, 2016

• With Congressman Jim McGovern on Just Eat It movie at Amherst Cinema on May 3, 2016

• Real Food Challenge Regional Action Training at Johns Hopkins University on February 11-14, 2016

• Food for Good: Cultivating Sustainable Solutions to Hunger in Massachusetts at UMass Amherst on October 30, 2015

• From Field to Fork: Building a Research and Action Plan to Improve Labor Conditions in the Massachusetts Food System hosted by UMass Amherst Labor Center on November 8-10, 2015

• Revisioning Sustainability – Campuses as Catalysts for a Regenerative World Conference at UMass Amherst on June 22-25, 2014