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Our biggest gift is to open ourselves to be impacted by each other and the world at large. To do that, we need to listen. To the quieter parts of ourselves, to the voices that come alive when we attune, the ones that speak the language of the heart, of the ancestors, of the trees and the rivers. Our biggest gift is also our biggest responsibility.

I believe in the magic that happens when my revealing of something within myself awakens something inside of you. I have seen it happen so many times. How our laughter pulls laughter and our tears pull tears out of one another. This includes the trees and the rivers - they laugh and they cry too.

I hold spaces where people can practice this kind of listening - to what is here for us to meet in each moment. And from this place of listening, to identify how we want to show up in the world.

The world is calling us upright in this moment of transitions and we each have a unique response-ability to answer that call.

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I'm a visionary organizer and Kingian nonviolence trainer working towards a world where we have increased capacities to sit with our own and each other’s complexities. I steward community spaces where participants can share grief, practice conflict skills, and be co-opted into emergence inspired by the erotic, the intuitive, the divine, the more-than-human. Angela has facilitated workshops for and collaborated with Loving Practice, Asian American Justice Innovation Lab, Visionary Organizing Lab, Friends of the Urban Forest, Oakland Peace Center, Sacred Roots, and the Wayfinding Collective.

Some of my biggest teachers have been the streams, rivers, trees, and mountains that have called me into this work. I am deeply and fully in love with this world we get to live in and continue to walk on the journey to learn to love everything that comes with it. My work is guided by the land and my ancestors. On this side of the veil, I am guided by the works of Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, and Nêgo Bispo.

I'm a second-generation Brazilian-born Korean. My paternal and maternal lineages were displaced from their homelands in the Korean Peninsula and settled in the lands of the Guarani people in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the early 70s. I was born and raised in a loving Korean community there and moved to Tovaangar (LA) with my family when I was 13. I am on a journey to continue to build a relationship with the lands of my lineage, the lands of my birth, and the lands that I call home.