PORTFOLIO of WORK
My work incorporates interreligious dialogue, contemplative practice, student formation, educational equity, and creative public scholarship. Across these domains, I explore how we create spaces for meaningful encounter, reflection, belonging, and transformation while honoring the cultural, religious, and intellectual differences that shape our lives.
Interreligious Dialogue, Meaning-Making & Spiritual Friendship
My interreligious work asks how we can encounter profound religious and cultural diversity without collapsing difference. Through scholarship, teaching, and collaborative projects such as Fetzer Institute’s Shared Sacred Story Project, I explore dialogue as an ongoing practice of meaning-making, spiritual friendship, and learning to understand others on their own terms.
Contemplative Practice, Culture & Relationality
My current research explores contemplation as culturally embedded, relational, and ethically engaged. In my recent work on Indigenous contemplative studies, decolonizing yoga, and Native Hawaiian carceral contexts, I ask how spiritual and contemplative practices can support kinship, cultural revitalization, relational repair, accountability, and contemplation in action.
(image credit: Haley Laughter)
Embodied Care, Accompaniment & Community Practice
More than fifteen years of teaching yoga and meditation contribute to my understanding of spiritual practice as a form of embodied attention, relationship, and care. Trauma-informed yoga and pastoral-care training inform my approach to consent, safety, vulnerability, accompaniment, and the creation of spaces where people can explore spiritual life while retaining agency and dignity. (image credit: Laura Dunn, Ganeshpuri "Guru Day")
Student Formation, Belonging & Educational Equity
As an educator and program leader, my goal is to create environments in which people feel known, supported, challenged, and capable of growth. From intercultural student formation to statewide equity work, I help educators translate values such as belonging, accountability, compassion, and care into educational life.
Art & Creative Public Scholarship
Art, image, movement, and ritual have long been part of how I think about religious experience and public scholarship. My research and curatorial work explore how visual culture, sacred space, embodied practice, and creative expression can open forms of inquiry and encounter that are not always accessible through language alone. (image credit: Laura Dunn, "Oceano Dunes.")