Profile Information
Location
New York City, NY
Country
United States
Postal Code
10035
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Volunteering
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Additionally, see a list of personal volunteer experiences over the years here: http://bit.ly/3ngTyco
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
My interest in PACEs is inspired by witnessing a world without access to interventions, protection, and medical care during my early years. I would later learn my challenges were intersectional as a result of a deeply flawed system that trickles down to communities and families. It took what feels like a lifetime to process life-changing violence I witnessed and experienced as an adolescent at the hands of a law enforcement official and then caretaker. After immersing myself in personal development work, I took Trauma-informed Outreach training through The Connection Coalition, a nonprofit organization that certifies volunteers, community members, and organizations to become trauma-informed to create connection and self regulation through mind / body practices. An alchemical process of sorts happened as I began to incorporate discoveries that I made during the training and related wellbeing methods I’d studied and practiced over the years. This gave me a new language and increased my capacity to deepen, sweeten, and expand my intuition, emotional intelligence, empathy, joy, discernment and integrity in work and life. I finally arrived at the “P” in PACEs, for positive and adverse childhood experiences, and the need to focus on the role of communities to create these nurturing experiences that help buffer the impact of adverse experiences. To me, it’s an incredibly significant acknowledgement of the wholeness and humanity of those who have witnessed or experienced adverse childhood experiences.
