Racial trauma is everywhere in the United States. It shapes workplaces, communities, institutions, families, and the way we see ourselves.
Most diversity and inclusion efforts don’t fail because people don’t care. They fail because we’ve been collectively denied the vital communication tools we need to truly listen to one another, understand one another’s experiences, and stop repeating the same painful cycles we’ve been stuck in for centuries. I help organizations and individuals move beyond performative inclusion efforts into real, lasting healing.
My work is rooted in Indigenous mentorship. I assisted with the 1st National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and translating the Community Readiness Model handbook into Spanish in 2007. My great-grandma, who raised me, is of Shawnee descent and instilled integrity in me as a child despite my otherwise White and Evangelical Christian upbringing. I’m attentive to how racial perceptions impact my reality – and how that reality compares for people of color.
If you’ve never had an honest conversation about your own racial experience, there’s a part of your identity you’re ignoring. That’s not a very kind thing to do to yourself, is it? You deserve to be a whole, complete human being with a whole, complete identity.
What Race & Cultural Healing Looks Like
✔ Healing White Racial Trauma – If you’re white and struggle with racial conversations because they feel like an attack, we’ll dig into understand those feelings so you can engage with equity work without shame or defensiveness. Your identity isn’t a problem, but avoiding talking about it and its impacts creates unnecessary pain—for you, and for everyone else.
✔ Breaking the False Consensus Effect – Some workplace conflicts aren’t about race itself but about perception.When one or two people in an organization hold extreme views informed by a television rather than real connections, they often assume more people agree with them than actually do. By opening communication and grounding ourselves in real, shared values, we can reduce friction and help people become better connected with their coworkers.
✔ Race & Identity Conversations for Organizations – Guiding teams through meaningful discussions on racial belonging, systemic inequities, and cultural awareness so that race is discussed with depth, not avoidance.
✔ Workplace Strategy for Racial Equity – Developing policies that go beyond compliance to create real cultural shifts. No checkbox DEI work—just practical, effective solutions for practical, effective teams.
My approach to racial healing is heavily informed by Resmaa Menakem’s work, and by his book, My Grandmother’s Hands. Racial trauma is not something reserved for people of color—it is something all of us need to heal from. If you’ve been avoiding conversations about race because you think whiteness is inherently bad or hateful, then let’s dig into that belief.
You deserve communication tools that allow you to talk about your racial experience in a way that is self-respectful, not self-destructive.
We All Have a Role in Healing
✔ If talking about race makes you anxious or uncomfortable, let’s work on that.
✔ If you’re unsure how to navigate workplace racial tension, I can help.
✔ If you’re committed to cultural healing but need a better strategy, let’s make one.
I deeply hold this belief: No person is superior or inferior to another.
But we’ve been conditioned to think in terms of superiority and inferiority; in terms of shame and worthiness. This way of thinking has given each of us multiple generations of heavy, exhausting, inherited pain that we do not have to keep carrying.
Healing is possible, and we have a responsibility to stop hurting each other when given the opportunity to do so.
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