I am a deep listener, a sensitive introvert and a creator. Nice to meet you!

In my professional life, I'm forever humbled to have shared in mutual learning and teaching with: Children who've experienced violence, abandonment and systemic dislocation. Adults and children facing life-threatening illnesses. Adults and children grieving the deaths of loved ones. Marginalized households, where one or more family members live with HIV/AIDS. Seekers in faith. Mystical-and-prophetic mentors and colleagues whose collective efforts move us toward justice with healing. Socially and spiritually rooted artists and activists.

In my personal life, I was formed in the Crenshaw district of urban LA/Tongavar, and in the Asian American Summer Camp ministry of the UMC. I am a queer cis Asian American woman of Okinawan and Japanese descents, and have been shaped by Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, Trans/Nonbinary and Diversely Abled beloveds. I have contended with structures and patterns of white supremacy patriarchy, over and over and over again.

My ancestors loved and labored, enabling me to earn an MSW, MFA and MDiv, and to work as a clinical social worker, community-based therapist, dance-theater artist, facilitator-teacher, spiritual director, and writer. I hold leader certifications with InterPlay(c), Poetry as a Tool for Wellness, The Art of Ensoulment, and am a member of Spiritual Directors International. I'm forever thankful to have been awarded a PEN-USA Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship and have been a Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook.

I look forward to the possibility of deeply listening to, for and with you.