nurse leader, brain health and healthcare
Speaking + Media
Nurse leader manifesting healing ideas in brain health and healthcare.
Scholar of unlearning, moral leadership, and systems change. Innovator, storyteller, and fierce advocate.
in the media
- Rapid-Acting Mental Health Treatment Summit Aims to Lead the Conversation on What Is Next in Mental Health, opens in a new tabPRNewswire, Nov 1, 2023
- The future is now: How is technology impacting the benefits industry?, opens in a new tabBenefitsPRO, July 31, 2023
- Health and Healing with Narrative Medicine, opens in a new tabWhat I Meant To Say Podcast, April 1, 2023
- Therapists Are Doing Sessions in Locked Bathrooms While Patients Call in From Their Cars, opens in a new tabSlate, April 4, 2020
- The Many Faces of Bravery: Columbia Nurses on COVID-19, opens in a new tabColumbia Nursing Magazine, Nov 9, 2020
- Pandemic Check-In, co-host, A Western Sounds Production, opens in a new tabVulture, Mar 19, 2020
- NY Nurses Say A Strike Is Needed To Keep Patients Safe, opens in a new tabGothamist, Mar 20, 2019
podcasts and conversations
- The Dignity Lab: The Dignity of Accountability, opens in a new tabGuest, 2025
- Rapid-Acting Mental Health Treatment 2024, opens in a new tabIn person, San Francisco, January 7, 2024
- Beyond the Breakthrough: The Psychedelics and Whole Health Integration Summit, opens in a new tabIn person, Orlando, April 9 to 11, 2024
- Off the Rails: Innovative Treatments and the Fight for Mental Healthcare Reform, opens in a new tabGuest, 2024
testimony and panels
- Brooklyn Borough President: Testimony on Ending Medical Debt2022
- New York City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor: Testimony on Mental Health in the Workforce2022
- Public Health Webinar Panel Host: Psychosis In A Pandemic2020
- Public Health Webinar Panel Host: Addiction During COVID-19 Quarantine2020
- Alumni Panel at Columbia University: Nursing in COVID-192020
- New York City Hall: Testimony on Safe Staffing2019
Bold ideas, impossible to ignore.
licenses and certifications
- Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: A Model for Accessible Psychedelic TherapySage Integrative Health, January 2021
- Mentalization Based Therapy: Basics CertificateAnna Freud, November 2019
- Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Care ProvidersMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, August 2018
- Improv and Sketch Training ProgramsThe Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, January 2016
- Five Mindfulness Trainings CertificationThich Nhat Hanh Blue Cliff Monastery, June 2015, 2018, 2023
- Being With DyingRoshi Joan Halifax, PhD, San Diego, 2008
education
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Registered NurseColumbia University in the City of New York, 2012 to 2013
- Narrative Medicine, Macy Scholars ProgramColumbia University, January 2013
- BA, Human Development, magna cum laudeUniversity of California, San Diego, 2005 to 2008
fellowships and awards
- Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Fellowship2023 to present
- Society of Participatory Medicine2022 to present
- American Nurses Association2022 to present
- The Coaching FellowshipSeptember 2022
- Celo Metaverse AcceleratorSeptember 2022
- Accelerator at Dragonfly by SVB and IAFJuly 2021
- What If Mental Health FellowshipNovember 2021
- CORO Leadership New York2019 to 2020
- Healio Health Honoree2022
- Celo Blockchain Foundation Innovating On Money Award2021
- New York Health Business Leaders Health Care Hero Award2021
- LinkedIn Leader of Nursing2020