My background is in nursing-I spent 25+ years working in low-income communities providing health and mental health care to individuals and families. I saw first-hand the struggles of poverty and how in-justice and environmental injustices impact people’s ability to be healthy and thrive. I have a deep passion for racial justice and spent the last 15 years (working in health and healthcare improvement with a deep focus on equity in achieving health and healthcare outcomes. I am also very passionate about climate justice, however, this is an area I have little direct action and experience in moving forward.
I just retired from my professional career and am now working with Showing Up for Racial Justice-Boulder and connected to the Facing Racism Alumni group (with Soul2Soul Sisters organization) and volunteering for a newly formed Unitarian Universalist BIPOC community.

I have been in therapy myself and spent 7 years of intensive psycho-somatic study in Boulder, Colorado. Over the years I have been a part of many, and offered some my self, therapy workshops focused on somatic healing. I was also a therapist for the Boulder County Mental Health Center in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Alot of the focus on trauma has emerged since my time as a therapist, however, I am very familiar with the trauma literature as it applies to health and healthcare outcomes.

1. Continue to learn ways of being that dismantle White Supremacy culture and offer more generative, healing ways of being in the world as we forge a new future.
2. Build skills in taking more direct action to injustices, the status quo and powers that be.
3. Build relationships with the other people from Boulder-SURJ that are taking this course.

Boulder-SURJ
Soul2Soul Facing Racism Alumni
UU The Mountain Top Community

yes, I am very comfortable on Zoom as I spent 15 years working remotely from home!!!

Yes, I recently retired from my professional career and therefore have time.

Mylene and Ralph are a part of Boulder-SURJ and both have taken the Facing Racism course offered by Soul2Soul Sisters. Ralph and I were together in the Fall 2020 cohort of Facing Racism where we met and have a continued connection. Both Mylene and Ralph have long histories and roots in racial justice issues and I believe their commitment to be deep and robust.

I am sure I will once we start but none now.