Leadership & Initiatives
Founder & Executive Director, Freedom Community Clinic
Freedom Community Clinic is a healing movement and clinic based in Oakland, CA that has brought Whole-Person Healing in the Bay and beyond, prioritizing the healing of Black, Brown, and immigrant communities. Starting out in the streets and growing rapidly in only 5 years, FCC has served 7,500+ people, with its street healing clinics with 50+ community partners, school-based healing programs, two brick and mortar Community Healing Centers in Downtown Oakland and Fruitvale East Oakland, a pharmacy/apothecary, and 1-acre ancestral healing farm. All offerings are held in English and Spanish and are for free or at community sliding scale. Since 2019, we have raised $4M+ with the support of the Stupski Foundation, CA Endowment, CA Wellness Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Zellerbach Foundation, and more.
Affiliated Faculty, San Francisco State University Institute for Holistic Health Studies
I am the youngest faculty at San Francisco State. Currently, I teach one undergraduate class per semester at the Institute of Holistic Health Studies. Classes I have taught include HH382: Human Nature and Global Perspectives and HH670: Alternative Health Practices
Pianist, Accompanist, Composer, Producer, Arranger
Debut EP: New Beginnings (January 2025)
Coming in January 2025, I am releasing an EP entitled New Beginnings, a collection of meditative music of contemporary classical music and meditative wisdom.
In addition, I release regular mixes on SoundCloud that celebrate revolution and combine various genres of the global diaspora.
Past Projects
Co-Founder, Institute for Healing & Justice in Medicine
Primary Author, Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice
The Institute for Healing & Justice in Medicine is a research institute that works towards a new medicine that is centered on healing, community, and justice. It published the inaugural report Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice, which spurred national advocacy to eradicate racism from clinical algorithms affecting patient care in medicine and public health. As a result, major academic medicine institutions, professional associations, and hospitals nationwide such as Harvard, UCSF, UW have modified their algorithms for kidney disease, lung disease, and chronic disease. Activism has led congressmembers Warren, Wyden, Booker, and Lee to propose legislation and national reviews on the use of race-based clinical algorithms in standard medical practices.
Founder, Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine & Health Justice
The Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine & Health Justice is a community of students, professors, and community members involved in medicine, public health, and health justice work. We are dedicated to creating an intersectional medicine and public health that is community-centered and advocates for the collective liberation and healing for all people, especially those most vulnerable and marginalized in society.
Founder & Host, Woke WOC Docs
Woke WOC Docs is a podcast about the lives of womxn of color in medicine/health justice, including their unique experiences, viewpoints, and struggles in medical education, research, and practice. We want to reveal the insights we as womxn of color uniquely have on how medicine can transform to end health injustices and be a better institution of health, well-being, and healing. Rated 5/5 stars on Apple Podcasts.
Herbal Medicine Apprentice
Soul Flower Farm School of Earth Medicine
Indigi Golden Herbals Academy
I’ve participated in two herbal medicine and beginner farmer apprenticeship programs at Soul Flower Farm in El Sobrante, CA and with Indigi Golden Herbals Academy. Through these experiences, I bring knowledge on how various herbal teas, blends, and botanical medicines that are local and Native to geographic areas can help address community health issues and dis-ease. Herbalism has also brought me closer to nature, to slowness, and given me a deeper understanding of the wonders of our body in connection to how Earth medicine can support its healing.
