I began my journey in the Buddhadharma in 2004 at the London Buddhist Center in Bethnal Green. Over the years I have trained in a range of Buddhist contexts and traditions, but I remain rooted in the Triratna Buddhist Order, to which I was ordained in 2018.

Professionally, my background is in leadership development, executive education and coaching. Following the wake-up call of the 2016 elections, I entered Union Theological Seminary in New York, where, as a seminarian, I studied Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement. My scholarship has focused on the 20th-century Dalit leader Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and his radical Buddhist imagination, which I place into conversation with Womanist and Black liberation theologies. At present, I am pursuing doctoral work in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

With a group of dear friends, I co-founded Awareness is Revolutionary, a collective of Buddhists committing to cultivating Beloved Community and accelerating racial literacy within a Dharmic framework. I also teach in secular contexts as a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, and have practiced as an interfaith chaplain in hospice and hospital settings.

When the pandemic hit New York City, my friend Jon Aaron and I co-founded Space2Meditate, which offers online meditation sessions seven days a week and is still going strong. Inspired by our grounding in various lineages and our training as mindfulness teachers, Space2Meditate has evolved organically into a non-denominational mindfulness community, with a love of poetry as an aide to deepening practice. Members have a diverse range of backgrounds, both secular and contemplative.

I now live between Chicago and New York City. I was born and raised in France.

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