WRITING

A selection of work weaving together themes of holistic healing, womanhood, embodied wisdom and community development, reflecting my profound commitment to sharing transformative stories that inspire healing, cooperation and action.

Holistic Health & Spirituality

• The Mayan calendar explained, how to find guidance in ancient wisdom (LifeGate, 2017)

• “We need to become the hope”, Eskimo shaman Angaangaq on the spiritual significance of climate change (LifeGate, 2017)

• Why we need more silence in our lives, the benefits of a silent meditation retreat (LifeGate, 2017)

• Maximón or San Simón: the Mayan folk saint who drinks, smokes and offers protection (LifeGate, 2017)

• How To Find Your Purpose Through Mayan Astrology In Guatemala (Epicure & Culture, 2017)

• Kambo, the tree frog medicine from the Amazon that cleanses body, mind and spirit (LifeGate, 2018)

• Celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá’í faith (LifeGate, 2017)

• Meet the Rastafarians of Ethiopia, the spiritual migrants who have returned home (LifeGate, 2015)

Women Empowerment

• Some say the poor can’t save: Rwanda’s Abarikumwe women prove otherwise (LifeGate, 2015)

• Mursi Women Redefine Beauty With Clay Plates (Epicure & Culture, 2016)

• Efficiency of the Policy and Practice of Integration and Empowerment of Refugee Women in Armenia (ICHD — International Center for Human Development — 2011)

• Teixchel, indigenous women in Guatemala weave to fight exclusion (LifeGate, 2017)

• Haute baso uses fashion to empower women in Rwanda (TRUE Africa, 2016)

• Women can rap and Angel Mutoni's here to prove it (TRUE Africa, 2015)

• How One Conscious Lifestyle Brand Is Using Fashion To Empower Women (Epicure & Culture, 2016)

• Artisans Of Rwanda: Meet Yusta, The Master Weaver (Epicure & Culture, 2105)

Community Development

• HandUp: technology and human kindness to end homelessness (LifeGate, 2015)

• The Kigali-social enterprise using public art to debate social issues (City Monitor, 2015)

• The young Indonesian Gamal Albinsaid trades waste for health care (LifeGate, 2015)

• Alebrijes, how fantastic wooden animals keep indigenous culture in Oaxaca alive (LifeGate, 2018)

• The conservation success story of the sacred forest in Kenya (LifeGate, 2016)

• The street artist fighting AIDS in Rwanda (TRUE Africa, 2015)

• The conservation success story of the sacred forest in Kenya (LifeGate, 2016)

• Hip hop for hope with Poppin’ Chris. Helping street kids dance their way to change (LifeGate, 2016)

• Climate change is flooding Jakarta: Watch the documentary (LifeGate, 2015)