Stewarding Indwell is deeply personal for me. In the movement of the late 1800s for “free” black slaves to return to our soils of origin, my family was amongst the many. My maternal great and great-great-grandparents were children on the Brig Cora, a vessel upon which over 300 passengers immigrated from Barbados to Liberia in 1865. My paternal great-great-grandparents migrated from Alabama and Florida to Liberia in this same season. So I am the descendant of waymakers, those who had to till forgotten soils to establish a sense of belonging and community. I hold these memories in my blood and create from this knowing.

My vocational path began as a nonprofit youth worker and program designer, creating intergenerational convenings for social justice that reached over 20,000 people across higher education institutions. While in this season, I became a grief-walker - I lost love that transitioned by their own hands, the hands of others, and the hands of nature. As I struggled to metabolize these experiences, I became aware of the hunger for spirit, heart, and body in the communities I supported, so I leapt into attuning these murmurs for liberation. While transitioning into NGO work in East Africa and corporate DEI, I grappled intimately with this sense-making of belonging in the human experience.

In 2021, Indwell emerged from my belly ache for belonging (for being the longing). I started weaving my questions and studies of Afro-indigenous Spirituality, Birth work, Christianity, Cultural Studies, the Dharma, Reiki, Transformational Coaching (CPC), and Yogic Wisdom (500 HR-RYT). I now hold all of these guides with gratitude, but my role as auntie, cousin, daughter, friend, godmother, granddaughter, niece, and sister—the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter—is central to the heart of Indwell.

It was the time spent with my family during holidays, summers, after school at my grandmother's house, and family reunions that informed my community designs. I noticed, in every program I designed, every person I gathered, and every life I tended to - it was these relationships that motivated me. It was processing the impermanence of life through love lost that fueled the sense of urgency around my work for liberation and community resourcing. In everything I touch, I now seek to expand my capacity to love, serve, and sustain the existence of my relationships - and to allow the same for others. It is from these foundations that Indwell creates from.