teaching.

~ university level.

  • Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Fellow
    • Dilemmas in Equity + Excellence in K-12 American Education, (Fall 2020)
    • Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: Understanding and Embracing Hip Hop in Education (Fall 2021)
  • Harvard Divinity School, TeachingAssistant
    • Religions and Society in Nigeria (Spring 2021)
  • Harvard African American Studies Department, Teaching Assistant
    • African Literature and The Poetics of Memory (Spring 2021)
  • Harvard Radcliffe Institute Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)
    • Leadership through lens of Gender and Social Movements (Spring 2022)

~ guest lectures/workshops.

  • Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, Racial Trauma & Healing Conference
  • Resolving Conflict & Cultivating Classrooms of Care & Curiosity. Sheraton, Norwood, Ma. March 2023.
  • Penn State University, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Advanced Port Class
  • Capoeira foundation and demonstration with Mestre Cleber Pety, February 2023
  • Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and The Spiritual Life Center
    • Three Modern Women Mystics, The Life and Teachings of bell hooks, June 2022
  • Harvard Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR) Center, Student Advisory Board (SAB)
    • Reconnecting with Self / Others through Capoetics, April 2022
  • Harvard Divinity School, Harambee Students of African Descent
    • Healing practices for Joy and Rest through Capoetics, April 2022
  • University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts (SDA)
    • Africana religious dimensions in play “Of Red and Brown Water”, Feb 2022
  • Methodist Theological School in Ohio
    • Africana Spirituality within Interfaith Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care, 2021
  • Tufts University Music Department, Medford, Massachusetts
    • Women in Music: Capoeiristas que cantam (Women practitioners who sing), 2021

~ elementary / middle / high school level.

  • Black yard Learning Center, Reservoir Church, Cambridge, Ma (2019 – present)
    • Content area: Capoeira and Cultural Competence, grades 2-6
  • I Know I Can Summer Academy, Ramallah Friends School, Ramallah, Palestine (2019)
    • Content area: Capoeira and Performance 7th, 8th, 9th grade
    • Content area: Beginners English Literacy, 4th grade
  • Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH), University of California Berkeley, Ca (2018)
    • Content area: College Success, 11th grade
  • Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH), University of Southern California, LA (2014)
    • Content area: Capoeira enrichment class 10th + 11th grade