Experience

Holden High School
• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Counselor and Teacher

  • Aug 2015 - Present


The Center for Somatic Psychotherapy

• Somatic Psychotherapist Trainee

  • Sep 2013 - Jun 2015

  Practiced somatic psychotherapy under the license of Clifford Goldenberg, LMFT #20060, at a sliding scale clinic in downtown San Francisco. Provided counseling services for individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents. Practiced somatic psychotherapy under the license of Clifford Goldenberg, LMFT #20060, at a sliding scale clinic in downtown San Francisco. Provided counseling services for individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents.



California Institute of Integral Studies

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Graduate Student

  • 2012 - 2015

  Completed an MA in counseling psychology with a concentration in somatic psychology toward the goal of becoming a marriage and family therapist with a focus on children and children's issues. Completed an MA in counseling psychology with a concentration in somatic psychology toward the goal of becoming a marriage and family therapist with a focus on children and children's issues.



The Esalen Institute

• Extended Student

  • Nov 2009 - Jan 2012

  Lived, worked and studied at the Esalen Institute, integrating 32-40 hours per week of service with participation in classes covering a variety of approaches to transformative practice, including Gestalt process, meditative practice, creative arts, movement, bodywork, and other forms of somatics, healing arts and intellectual engagement. Lived, worked and studied at the Esalen Institute, integrating 32-40 hours per week of service with participation in classes covering a variety of approaches to transformative practice, including Gestalt process, meditative practice, creative arts, movement, bodywork, and other forms of somatics, healing arts and intellectual engagement.



United Nations Development Program "GEF Global Medical Waste" Project

• Global Project Manager

  • 2007 - 2009

  • Managed a $12 million global public health project demonstrating the feasibility of employing environmentally responsible methods to treat hospital waste in eight countries: Argentina, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Senegal, Tanzania, the Philippines and Vietnam. • Provided programmatic and budgetary oversight for national project teams and liaised with a wide range of stakeholders to advance project goals, working in English, French and Spanish as appropriate. • Managed a $12 million global public health project demonstrating the feasibility of employing environmentally responsible methods to treat hospital waste in eight countries: Argentina, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Senegal, Tanzania, the Philippines and Vietnam. • Provided programmatic and budgetary oversight for national project teams and liaised with a wide range of stakeholders to advance project goals, working in English, French and Spanish as appropriate.



The Luminary Project

• Communications Director

  • 2005 - 2006

  • Coordinated the successful public launch of a project highlighting nurses’ leadership in environmental health advocacy – a joint venture of the American Nurses Association, the Univ. of Maryland School of Nursing, and the nonprofit Health Care Without Harm. • Orchestrated a media campaign for the project’s launch that reached more than 1.5 million nurses and developed a communication strategy to ensure continued coverage. • Coordinated the successful public launch of a project highlighting nurses’ leadership in environmental health advocacy – a joint venture of the American Nurses Association, the Univ. of Maryland School of Nursing, and the nonprofit Health Care Without Harm. • Orchestrated a media campaign for the project’s launch that reached more than 1.5 million nurses and developed a communication strategy to ensure continued coverage.



Health Care Without Harm

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications Coordinator

  • 2002 - 2006

  • Crafted and implemented the communications strategy for a global campaign of more than 400 member organizations in 52 countries working to protect public health by reducing pollution in the health care industry. • Crafted and implemented the communications strategy for a global campaign of more than 400 member organizations in 52 countries working to protect public health by reducing pollution in the health care industry.



Hospitals for a Healthy Environment

• Communications Coordinator

  • 2002 - 2006

  • Founded a communications position within a growing environmental health project jointly administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Hospital Association, and the non-profit organization Health Care Without Harm. • Spearheaded the project’s communication strategy as it developed into a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, including soliciting media coverage of the organization and its issues, and writing website content, press releases and marketing materials. • Founded a communications position within a growing environmental health project jointly administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Hospital Association, and the non-profit organization Health Care Without Harm. • Spearheaded the project’s communication strategy as it developed into a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, including soliciting media coverage of the organization and its issues, and writing website content, press releases and marketing materials.