Ithaca College

 The CSCRE and AAA invite Asian American students to a workshop: Healing and Centering Asian American Grief, Rage, and Sorrow: A Gathering for our Hearts with traci ishigo, MSW.

Friday, April 16th 2021. 5:30-7 PM via Zoom 
Link: https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYscuygpjkrHNbTMHRK0cVh0EIONecCyd4c

 This workshop will provide a healing space for grief and various emotions (anxiety, fear, anger) that many Asian Americans are feeling in the wake of rising anti-Asian violence. It will also provide a space to discuss Asian American identity and experiences on campus. For more information, please email Dr. Yamashita: wyamashita@ithaca.edu

traci ishigo, MSW (pronouns they/she), is a politicized therapist, community organizer, and trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher based in the Tataviam and Tongva territory in the Greater Los Angeles area. traci is a co-founder and co-director of Vigilant Love, a grassroots organization that works to protect the safety and justice of communities impacted by Islamophobia through arts, healing and activism. In their private practice called Webs of Well-being, traci provides individual and couples psychotherapy, trauma-informed yoga + meditation, and politicized, healing-centered consulting with community-based organizations. Informed by their experiences as a queer nonbinary, survivor, Japanese American Buddhist, traci is honored to build with QTI & BIPOC community, creatives and activists to deepen individual and collective healing.