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

2019 Zappos x SF Ballet  

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

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