Experience

National Conference on Race & Ethnicity (NCORE)

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• NCORE Program Coordinator at Intersection of Disability, STEM and Race, Ethnicity & Soveignty

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Bringing people together to generate programing at the intersection of Dis/Ability and Race, Ethnicity and Sovereignty, and STEM and Race, Ethnicity and Sovereignty Bringing people together to generate programing at the intersection of Dis/Ability and Race, Ethnicity and Sovereignty, and STEM and Race, Ethnicity and Sovereignty



Intentional Creativity Foundation, Inc.

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Facilitator and Teacher of Intentional Creativity

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Intentional Creativity is a framework, practice, perspective and method of art that centers the experience of the practitioner - and provides a way for us to re-member who we are, locate our own inner compass, and create gorgeous imagery that brings to form each of our particular narratives. Intentional Creativity is a framework, practice, perspective and method of art that centers the experience of the practitioner - and provides a way for us to re-member who we are, locate our own inner compass, and create gorgeous imagery that brings to form each of our particular narratives.



Kai Wairua

• Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit

  • Nov 2021 - Present

  The Resilience Toolkit is a culturally informed and somatic-based system designed by Nkem Ndefo for reducing stress and growing resilience in individuals, organizations, and communities so they can envision, create, and implement positive change. The Toolkit reintroduces you to a practice of noticing what your body and emotions are telling you, and invites you to recognize your own stress and relaxation cycles. You’ll understand when your stress is helping, neutral, or harming you. Generally, people learn how to choose from a menu of quick, effective stress-reduction tools. And, build your new skills into deep, lasting habits that affect powerful transformation over time. In this way, there is a real possibility of recalibrating a sustained sense of wellbeing and enhanced resilience to managing whatever is coming up in life.I find that this practice also invites a re-membering of how to navigate by your own inner compass. Stressors that bring friction and irritation transmute from being experienced as negative into being clear signals that help cue you into noticing structural issues with the situation. Transmuting the stress from being about you, to being about how you are experiencing a space or situation. Vital information. And, importantly, regular practice invites a spaciousness and opportunity to begin to recognise when something is calling you in - allowing decisions to be informed by attraction and pleasure. For more - please go to our website - Lumos Transforms and The Resilience Toolkit Show less

• Independent socially responsible scholar and scientist

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  I am called to learn how our behaviors are connected and informed by external and internal states, stories, and structures. How do powerful forces such as stress and love, colonialism and community, organize the body and mind and influence behaviors? I learn with animals - all people. And apply the following methods: 1. ethnography - observing behaviors to discern their natural patterns; 2. Neuroethology - understanding the neural properties associated with specific behaviors; 3. Biophysics of cells and field recordings - to discern the neural conversations associated with behaviors; 4. Endocrinology - to discern the hormones and accompanied chemical signals associated with behaviors. Show less



Corvallis Daily DropIn Center

• Corvallis, OR

• Art Tuesday co-creator at Corvallis Daily DropIn Center

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Co-creating a space and practices bringing creative endeavors to house-insecure folks in Corvallis. Our mission is to provide the materials, co-regulation, and unproductive fun - so that folks can reconnect and re-imagine themselves as the skilled, thoughtful, creative beings they already are. Support methods offered weave emotion-regulation with The Resilience Toolkit, and creative methods from Intentional Creativity, and Color theory of emotions and embodied experience. Co-creating a space and practices bringing creative endeavors to house-insecure folks in Corvallis. Our mission is to provide the materials, co-regulation, and unproductive fun - so that folks can reconnect and re-imagine themselves as the skilled, thoughtful, creative beings they already are. Support methods offered weave emotion-regulation with The Resilience Toolkit, and creative methods from Intentional Creativity, and Color theory of emotions and embodied experience.



Willamette University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor of Biology, Neuroscience, and Women & Gender Studies

  • Aug 2009 - Aug 2021