My Experience and Credentials

Coaching, advising, teaching, and mentoring

  • Two decades of teaching globally, from early childhood to graduate education, with expertise in gender, leadership, academic and career development, and organizational administration

  • Life coach, trained in 2018, Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Life Coach program

  • Two decades of advising and mentoring undergraduate and graduate (Masters and Ph.D.) level students

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

  • Advising professional, research, and academic projects, including thesis and dissertations

  • Facilitating workshops and retreats, including women’s backpacking and writing

  • Creating and teaching classes on climate, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and gardening

  • Momming to one amazing kid, who is MY best teacher in this life

Mindful, intuitive, and grounded

  • Therapeutic somatic trauma and nature-based interventions, Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute

  • Intro to Climate Aware Therapy, Climate Psychology Alliance-North America

  • Sustainability Leadership program, Sustainable Living Association

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

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

  • 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 since 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

  • Trainings with Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Women Who Run with Wolves): Story as Medicine and Heart of the Wounded Healer