PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING & FACILITATION
Facilitation has been an integral part of my practice for over a decade, a way of moving in relationship and a pathway to generative, courageous, and connective community space. I continue to offer this wisdom on a sliding scale model for collectives, organizations, and communities. My formal training and teachers include the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan, AORTA coop, the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and Spring Up!
PREVIOUS WORK
I have facilitated and consulted with a variety of organizations and communities, from large institutions like museums, hospitals, and universities, to small non-profit organizations, community collectives and organizing spaces, and interpersonal contexts. I have experience as a transformative justice and community accountability facilitator, leading dialogues and trainings on social justice, equity, and liberation, leading workshops as a teaching artist, supporting organizations in equity audits, straegic visioning, and process work, and facilitating adventure leadership ropes courses. I bring emergent strategy, intergroup dialogue, creative practice, generative somatics, and other approaches to my facilitation practice. I additionally have consulted with communities and organizations to lead projects around social justice learning and community transformation. Below is a list of some of the collaborators I have worked with over the past years.
The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Project 351 (2023 Service Hero)
RAW Artworks
Last Mile Health
Hebrew College Dignity Project
The Prison Studies Project
The Radcliffe Institute
Harvard University Human Resources
Hebrew College Miller Center
Our Liberation is Bound Together Curriculum with Kavod Boston
Beloved Community Art Exhibition and I Can! Academy at Nashua Street Jail
Change it Up!
The Prison Creative Arts Project
Harvard Graduate School of Education Project Zero
Mass General Hospital
Emerson Teach In on Race
Program on Intergroup Relations and CommonGround at the University of Michigan
Voices of SMA
Fulbright Mid-Year Seminars for Visiting Scholars
Sunrise Boston
Clark County Public Arts Full Scope Workshops
Allied Media Conference RadCare Network Gathering
The Teen Exhibitions Program at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is a group of paid teens from the Boston area that work together to plan, curate, and install artwork in the ICA Teen Gallery located at the ICA's Seaport Studio just two blocks from the ICA.
coco is the Teaching Artist for the Teen Exhibitions Program. In January 2023, TEP's Exhibition "The Stories that Make Us" opened, celebrating the immigrant experience and featuring the work of teen artists of I Learn America. Read more about the exhibit here. This is one example of coco's robust work as a teaching artist, facilitator, and consultant.
