University of New Mexico (UNM)

Teaching Associate | Albuquerque, NM | May 2014–2019
AMST 182: Environmental Justice
AMST 336, WMST 227: Art, Activism, Bruja Feminism
AMST 185: Southwest Studies
AMST 182: Introduction to Environment, Science, and Technology

Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)

Adjunct Faculty | Santa Fe, NM | January 2009-2018
Summer Bridge: De-colonial Art and Activism
Linked English 99/101: Race and Sexuality, Race and Visual Culture English 098: Developmental English I
English 099: Developmental English II
English 101: English Composition I
English 102: English Composition II, Animals and Culture
First Year Seminar: Exploring Play

Santa Fe University of Art & Design

Contributing Faculty, Liberal Arts | Santa Fe, NM |
September 2011–June 2013
Writing Roundtable I: Self in Nature, Nature as Self
Writing Roundtable II: Radical Nature Writing
Special Topics in Religion: Desire and Detachment: Exploring Love Through Classic Eastern Texts
Writing Roundtable II: The Visual in Social Life

The Life Healing Center

Adjunct Therapist & Group Facilitator | Santa Fe, NM | 2004–Present
Grounding and Growing Self in Community | December 2018–Present
Weekly group focused on the applying mindfulness skills to building community and webs of relationship that extend beyond treatment: understanding boundaries, speech, action, and care of self in community.

Embodied Storytelling Designer/Facilitator | September 2016– Present
Lead weekly writing group (4 hours per week) in order for survivors to tell stories, reconstruct narratives of sensory memory, and bear witness to shared stories of pain and survival. Group combines free-writing and Hakomi Integrated Somatics.

Mindfulness Instructor | September 2016 – January 2019
Instructor for weekly groups (4 hours per week) of mindfulness/meditation workshops. Groups focus on body-centered awareness as a vehicle for accessing sensory and proprioceptive awareness, cultivating compassion and loving kindness, and becoming fully present in moment to moment awareness.