Marisela Gomez
Community activist, mindfulness practitioner, and author of Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore
http://www.mariselabgomez.com/Marisela Gomez is a mindfulness practitioner in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, public health scholar activist, preventive/alternative medicine physician. Of Afro-Latina ancestry, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland USA involved in social justice activism and community building/research and co-facilitates mindfulness gatherings with Baltimore and Beyond Mindfulness Community for BIPOC and Social Activists. She is the author of Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore, and numerous chapters in popular and scholarly publications. She has blogged at Huff Post and http://www.mariselabgomez.com/ on the intersection of wisdom justice and mindfulness. For a TedTalk on healing racism through waking up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZEsPnhlXg)
Recorded Sessions
Embodying social change: individually and collectively
Notice tensions in our body that are socially constructed and begin to take care of them
