Emily is honored to be a part of several impactful projects, teams, and initiatives committed to increasing access to trauma-sensitive, culturally informed, embodied healing practices.

1. Clinical Director – We the Mindful: a global initiative dedicated to transforming colonial impact and helping remove barriers associated with accessing mental health support, with a mission that the power of healing remain in the hands of each Community.  Emily is also one of the TCTSY-Trainers in our TCTSY-Community Leadership Program working with women who identify as refugees in the Middle East.

2. Director of Training & Clinical Consultant – Move to Heal South Dakota: Sioux Falls-based non-profit dedicated to empowering youth in overcoming experiences of trauma and oppression through movement and culture-based healing arts and trauma-informed care.  This past year, we piloted our first Healing Arts Program incorporating trauma-sensitive yoga, dance, and creative expression to youth.  Our program is in the process of expansion, with the intention of offering this model to Native youth and Indigenous communities across Turtle Island.

3. Clinical Research Advisor – Mind Body Trauma Care Lab: currently studying Trauma-Sensitive Yoga applications with Indigenous and First Nations populations, as well as perinatal womxn.