Training and Teachers

I am particularly influenced by the training and coaching I’ve received from Embodying Racial Justice, PowerLabs, the Center for Callings and Courage and the Sierra Club. I grew up as an organizer at Free Press, where I learned so much from the team, volunteers and allies.

Organizing, Campaign & Social Movement Trainings

  • PowerLabs, with Analyst Institute and the Movement Cooperative, Pathways to Power, 2025

  • PowerLabs, We’re A Nerdy Movement Study Group, 2024

  • Movement Generation, Everything Seed, 2023

  • Sierra Club, Sierra Academy Power Building Series, 2023

  • PowerLabs, with Jane Booth-Tobin and Liz McKenna, Understanding Strategic Capacity In Constituency-Based Organizations, 2021

  • PowerLabs, with Hahrie Han and Liz McKenna, Prisms Of The People: Power And Organizing In 21st-Century America, 2021

  • PowerLabs, We’re A Nerdy Movement Study Group, 2020

  • PowerLabs, People-Powered Campaign Training, Coaching and Strategic Planning, 2016—2018 

  • Momentum, Movement Building Training, 2019

  • Roundtable discussion with Hahrie Han and Free Press Staff, 2019

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Management & Leadership Trainings

  • Sierra Club, Leadership Academy, 2023 

  • Leading Change Network, with Ruth Wageman, Building Great Leadership Teams: 6 Conditions You Can Put In Place In Your Teams, 2022

  • Rockwood Leadership Institute, Art of Leadership, 2016

  • Midwest Academy, Supervising Organizers Workshop, 2010

  • Midwest Academy, Intro to Strategy Chart, 2010

  • The Management Center, Managing to Change the World, 2009

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Racial Justice Trainings

  • Sierra Club, Senior Leadership White Women’s Caucus, 2022—2023

  • Equity in the Center, Building Black Power: Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Our Institutions, 2022

  • Partners for Collaborative Change, Accountability, Equity and Racial Justice Training, 2018

  • Race Forward, Building Racial Equity Training, 2015

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Racial Justice & Somatics Trainings

  • Embodying Racial Justice, Weekly Practice, 2024-present

  • Embodying Racial Justice, Opening To Freedom: Embodied Facilitation for White Folks in Racial Justice Movements, 2024—2025

  • Embodying Racial Justice, Embodying Racial Justice Intro Course - Multiracial, 2024

  • Embodying Racial Justice, Somatics for White Racial Justice Organizers, Levels I, II & III, 2022—2023

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Somatics & Embodiment Trainings

  • Sarah Peyton, Resonant Healing 101: Language that Reconnects, 2025

  • The Strozzi Institute, Return to Center, 2024—present

  • The Strozzi Institute, Somatics for Sierra Club Organizers, 2022

  • The Strozzi Institute, Somatics, Trauma and Resilience, 2020 

  • The Strozzi Institute, Women’s School of Embodied Leadership, 2018 

  • Prakasa Yoga Studio, iLEAP Into Life Empowered and Present: Yoga Program, 2013

  • Prakasa Yoga Studio, Deep Sleep Workshop, 2012

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Career & Business Trainings

  • The Center for Callings and Courage, Business Coaching, 2025

  • The Center for Callings and Courage, The Changemakers Mentorship, 2024

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Local Food Systems & Bioregional Herbalism Trainings

With Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, Foxtrot Farm, Goldthread Apothecary, Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials, Milk and Honey Herbs, River Valley Market, Sawmill Herb Farm, Thyme Herbal, and Wilder Hill Gardens.

Trainings of note include:

  • Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials, The Sleep Alchemist: Transforming Nights Through Traditional And Modern Wisdom, 2024

  • Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials, Grow! Advanced Gardening Course, 2023

  • Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials, Transition Zones Miniseries: 7 Introductory Lessons To Herbal Physiology, 2017

  • Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials, Physiology With Heart: Principles For Herbalists Learning Physiology, 2016

  • Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials, Anatomy And Physiology: An Herbalist's Guide To The Body, 2015

  • Thyme Herbal, The Art Of Home Herbalism, 2015

  • Milk And Honey Herbs, From The Roots Up, 2014

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