The Details…

 
 
 
 
 
 

Coaching, advising, teaching, and mentoring

  • 2 decades of teaching around the world from early childhood to university on women, leadership, academic and career development, and motherhood

  • Life coach training through Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Life Coach program

  • 2 decades of advising undergraduate and graduate (masters and Ph.D.) level students

  • Mentoring professional staff and faculty in education and higher education institutions

  • Advising professional and academic projects, including thesis and dissertations

  • Facilitating and teaching yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and gardening

  • Momming to one amazing 8 year old daughter, who is MY best teacher in this life

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mindful, intuitive, and grounded

  • Therapeutic nature-based interventions, Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute

  • 2 decades of personal yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practice

  • Hatha based yoga practice in Bangalore, India (year-long experience)

  • Yoga teacher training in Hatha and Vinyasa style yoga, Yoga Alliance 200RYT certification

  • Usui Shiki Ryoho 2nd Degree Reiki practitioner

  • Beekeeper or, more accurately, Kept by Bees

  • Gardening, since ever that I can remember

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Education credentials

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Higher Education and Sociology, University of Arizona

  • Full professor, tenured, at a higher education research university

  • Department chair at a higher education research university

  • Academic and student affairs leadership and administrative experience in higher education

  • Research and publications on women, interculturalism, and inclusivity in education

  • Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach training

  • 200hr yoga teacher, Yoga Alliance certification

  • Embodied Mindfulness in Teaching, Naropa University

  • Colorado Master Gardener

  • Montessori early childhood teaching credential, Pacific Oaks College

  • Certificate for English Language Teaching to Adults, University of Cambridge

  • Climate Change and Health certification, Yale School of Public Health