The Aranya Project is a resource, community, and offering that incorporates deep, inner self work and collective care work - both essential to building a healthy, collaborative and safe ecosystem of care - for all.

Through my private coaching programs, professional development workshops and community events, I help historically excluded leaders access the freedom to become more self aware and self responsive daily, so they can lead more whole, boundaried, and loving lives, and build a more just and loving world.

Since launching in 2020, I’ve supported many clients in finding their own authentic voices; in learning to embrace change and find safety within their bodies; in alchemizing their anger, shame and resentment into sources of wisdom; in supporting them to listen and honor their deepest desires; and in launching new initiatives, careers, projects and much more.

My tools and teachings have led to new career paths; powerful conversations with managers, family members, and peers; the activation of personal healing journeys; creative projects; the release of deeply held old stories and limiting beliefs and more.

I synthesize best practices in anti-oppression work, somatic healing, transformational leadership, and holistic methods through storytelling and meditation to execute uniquely powerful spaces.

The Aranya Project is created by and for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and immigrant-identifying leaders.

Being a “leader” isn’t simply about holding a position of power at a company or organization, and it’s not about a title. Leadership is a way of being - an embodiment of your deepest values while owning a sense of self.

I love this quote by one of my favorite embodied leadership coaches, Anne-Marie Marron: “[Leadership] is about marrying the ‘doing’ and the ‘being’ parts of us so we can stay connected to ourselves and others, rather than operate primarily from autopilot or reactivity… [we] learn how to interrupt fear-based thoughts and entrapping emotional patterns.

We take ownership for the behaviors that cause separation and judgment. We embody healthy power and practice communicating with authenticity and compassion” (source).

I work with folx looking to cultivate a rich, inner world through an exploration of their personal narratives, values, strengths, and conditioned beliefs from their cultural heritage/family dynamics and social communities.

Many of my clients identify as:

• Professionals from the nonprofit, international NGO, philanthropy, & technology sectors

• Healers, community organizers, & coaches

• Creatives (writers, musicians, & performing artists)

• Multihyphenates

• Academics

• Caregivers building and holding space for their families and communities

For a long time, I believed the path to authenticity starts with creating a source of safety and belonging within - an individual journey.

But over time, through my work with historically excluded leaders (especially Black and Brown folx and first gens) and through my own journeying, I’m learning that it’s so much more than “showing up as your most authentic self.”

This isn’t an individual journey, this a relational journey. Creating spaces of safety and belonging within while forming connections with others, learning how to navigate relationships, learning how to uplift communities through our own healing work. I am indebted to ancient philosophies such as Ubuntu, social justice spaces led by Black organizers and healers, doulas and birth workers, and spiritual communities for this powerful shift in the way we think about healing, safety, and belonging.

Authenticity matters very little if we aren’t doing the necessary and important work of ensuring our communities are loved and supported.