I think this question is very dependent on how work is defined. The work that provides my physical and financial stability is as the Director of Learning, Equity and Workplace Culture at the Museum of Modern Art. As an Equity and Change Management practitioner, my work focuses on operationalizing equity, diversity, and inclusion by transforming an organizations people and operating systems, structures, and culture to embody equity internally and advance justice externally. My primary work in relation to those directly dependent on me is raising my children in such a way that breaks intergenerational trauma, establishing a home that is safe and nourishing, and providing a family parental unit that is a safe container with love and boundaries that enables the exploration and development of my 6 and 2 year old. My primary work in relation to myself in the world at this stage in my life is to reparent my inner child, deepen intimacy in the relationships around me and being intentional about radical, authentic relationship building in service of social change.

The role I see as mine to play is still in development. I see myself as a chaos-clarifier, pattern identifier, systemic bridge-builder, and facilitator of third spaces. I see my role as a weaver and convener--always looking for the gaps, always looking for the parts that bring people alive within the fabric of relationships, identity, and group dynamics within the specific time and place I am found. I think my roles are evolving.

Goals or aims I have in regard to the development of the roles I see myself playing are varied:
1. Invest/run a bed & breakfast business in Orange County or Putnam County NY based on regenerative practices that offers a container for rest, exploration, intimacy, building, practice, and most importantly for what Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery call "joyful militancy"--"a concept that challenges the idea that activism has to be this constant burden and proposes instead a framework where joy, creativity and optimism take a central role"
2. Introduce regenerative practices to the land and the community in a small mountain community in Vista Alegre, Dominican Republic where my father-in-law harvests organic cacao keeping the local Dominican and Haitian community at the center to intervene in the current cultural relationship.
3. Facilitate small gatherings and retreats based on cultivating embodied joy, third liberatory spaces for what is possible and what can emerge at the edges of what is and what could be for ourselves and the world, and for integrating Group Relations open systems theory in making sense of the chaos of our world.
4. Find a community rooted and invested in a different way of being and living, willing to be affected by the lived experience of the other.

My next arenas for personal growth are
1. Putting definitions and language to what feels intuitive (i.e. thinking about building my knowledge base around regenerative development and practice).
2. Deepening and growing comfortable in the understanding of my own worthiness independent of what I "produce"--my value in simply just being.
3. My ability to pursue what I am uniquely designed for rather than what society deems suitable for me as a first generation Latina from a low-socioeconomic household with a specific class identity lens
4. My ability to integrate my skills, my unique longings I was made to answer, and the spaces that those two things might benefit from

1. Building my knowledge base of Regenerative Development from a theory and research standpoint
2. The business side of Innkeeping and running a successful bed & breakfast/hospitality endeavor
3. Understanding the process of cacao production and its impact on the surrounding communities from an ecological, social, economical, physical, etc. standpoint

Personally, I have invested in my own mental health and invested in the health of my marriage through counseling and seminars for example. I have been working since the age of 11 to support my mother and sister and all through college to pay for housing, medical bills, etc. I held 2 jobs while getting my bachelors degree, worked full time in a nonprofit while enrolled full-time in my Masters in Social Work program and babysat on the side. I have invested in getting certification as an Advanced Practitioner in DEI through Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and as a certified Facilitator on Race, Power and Privilege through Cultures Connecting and Race Forward. I have invested in over 9 years of conferences, small group trainings, and seminars to become a Consultant and Director in national Group Relations Conferences through A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems and now serve on the Board as the Vice President. I have invested in an Aspiring Innkeeper Seminar on Buying an Inn through WhiteStone Brokers.

Social psychologist Ignacio Martín-Baró's Liberation Psychology
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Gloria Anzaldua: This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color a feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
bell hooks All About Love
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
Margaret Rioch and Bion
James Baldwin
Audre Lorde
Joyful Militancy by Carla bergman and Nick Montgomery
Race Equity Tools

My philosophy or cosmology of life is best captured through a relational framework which aligns closely to most decolonial-centered frameworks:
1. Centering the relational nature of humans to the rest of living and non-living things instead of centering domination, extraction, and control over nature and people.
2. Focus should be on "root causes, underlying power structures, inequities, and historical context that contribute to social and environmental outcomes".
3. "Embracing pluriversal knowledge by recognizing that different cultures and communities have developed different knowledge systems, often based on their historical, social, and ecological contexts."
4. Intentional focus on collective liberation and joy--practicing emergence and organizing through a fractal model of change, by noticing patterns, and tending to both the small and the big. (adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy)
5. Centering marginalized experiences and rooting connection and expansion in ancestral knowledge and lineage
**Much of my own philosophy or cosmology of life is deeply aligned to Sabrina Meherally and her principles of Relational Design via her organization Pause and Effect which are the quotes outlined above.