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, Producer, Chamber Music Composer, Arranger
Debut Album: New Beginnings (January 2025)
Available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major streaming platforms.
I am a classically-trained pianist of 25+ years and chamber music composer and arranger, inspired by Chopin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and her mom's Filipino ballads. I infuse community wisdom & mantras to create contemporary classical music for self-reflection & healing. My debut album, “New Beginnings” (January 2025), features my own piano compositions and first ever arrangement for a string ensemble.
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
As the founder and co-host of Woke WOC Docs, I curated content of ongoing biweekly podcast series that seeks to engage current and aspiring women of color in medicine with real and diverse stories, conversations, and lived experiences on what it means to hold the identity of a woman of color in the medical field and health justice work. I published bi-weekly interview episodes with physicians, residents, and medical students discussing critical sociopolitical and ethical issues in medicine and health justice work. Through organic marketing, WWD has reached 80,000+ plays and 2,000+ subscribers worldwide on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Spotify.
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.
