NDN CV | RECORD
PRACTICE BASED RESEARCHER
NEUROSCIENTIST
ARTIST
MINDFULNESS EXPERT
PUBLIC SPEAKER
WORK RECORD
PUBLIC SPEAKING
2022 Salesforce Venture Uplift Well-being Summit for Founders (Speaker)
2022 The Art + Science of Embodied Presence (Esalen Faculty)
2021 Kennedy Center (Artist in Residence)
2021 MIT Sloan Business (neuroscience education)
2020 Artist in Residence Saint Joseph's Arts Foundation (Choreography)
2020 Apple (key note speaker)
2020 Kennedy Center Couch Concert Series (performer)
2020 goop (guest expert/ public speaker)
2020 Google (key note speaker)
2020 Lululemon IWD ICON Series (performer)
2020 Alt Summit Conference (presenter)
2020 Google Black History Month Summit (presenter)
2019 lululemon x Roksanda Collaboration Collection
2019 Georgetown University (guest lecturer)
2019 Designers + Geeks (presenter)
2019 Wanderlust Tour (presenter)
2019 Yeah Field Trip (presenter)
2018 Scripps College (teaching artist)
AWARDS
2022 Garrison Institute Fellow
2021 Kennedy Center Artist Residency
2017-2018 Yerba Buena Center of the Arts Fellowship
2017 Scripps College Lois Langland Residency
ART COMMISSIONS
2020 Saint Joseph Arts Foundation
2020 Yerba Buena Center of the Arts
2019 lululemon x Roksanda Collaboration Collection
2017 Policia Lipstick Stains Music Video
ACADEMIC RECORD
TRANSART INSTITUTE/ LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORE'S UNIVERSITY
PhD Candidate (2025)
The Art, Science + Practice of Embodied Presence: Healing, Well-Being and Liberation for Historically Marginalized People through Mindfulness, Self-Reflection, Self-Expression and Contemplative Dance
UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH
Master of Science Neuroscience of 2007
Masters Thesis: Assessing Neurocognitive Differences in Executive Functioning: Investigating Ventral Prefrontal Cortex Function in Bipolar Individuals using fMRI Paradigm
SCRIPPS COLLEGE
Bachelor of Arts Neuroscience, Dance 2005, graduated with honors
Senior Thesis: The Association between Estrogen and Cognitive Functioning: a Relationship between Spatial Abilities, Verbal Abilities and Hemisphere Specialization in Young Women across the Menstrual Cycle.
REFERENCES
MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH
Mentor, VP of Programming at the Kennedy Center
bamuthi@gmail.com
DR. ANGEL ACOSTA
Mentor, Director of the Garrison Institute
angel@garrisoninstitute.org
KT NELSON
Mentor, ODC Artist Director (30+ years), Co-founder of RoundAntennae
nelsonkt55@gmail.com
LAUREN ASH
Colleague, Founder of Black Girl in Om
hello@laurenash.co
ANNA-ALEXIA BASILE
Creative Partner, Photographer
anna.alexia.basile@gmail.com