Monday, March 18, we will meet online.
This week we will meet Monday from 7-8:30PM EST online, Wednesday morning from 7-8AM in person at our meditation space (3812 Northampton Street NW), and Friday 12-1PM EST online.
On Monday evening, Magda and Marisela will facilitate.
In commemoration of Black History Month and International Women’s Day, Opening Heart’s Engaged Mindfulness group invited Dr. Marisela B. Gomez to facilitate Monday night. We are honored to have Dr. Gomez, who recently co-authored Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation with Valerie Brown and Kaira Jewel Lingo.
Dr. Gomez is an Order of Interbeing member, a Plum Village Dharma Teacher, and a community public health activist scholar, who has been organizing in various capacities for equitable and sustainable alternative models for community development for more than 25 years in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Gomez is one of the organizers of Village of Love and Resistance (VOLAR), whose mission is to cocreate a cooperative community in East Baltimore owned by Black and Brown people. VOLAR seeks to build this cooperative community through the reclamation of land, healing, reconnecting, and building a base of community power.
Dr. Gomez has also written Race, Class, Power,and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America. Other relevant publications include: Urban Redevelopment and Neighborhood Health in East Baltimore, Maryland:The Role of Communitarian and Institutional Social Capital, Policing, Community Fragmentation, and Public Health: Observations from Baltimore, and Neoliberalization’s Propagation of Health Inequity in Urban Rebuilding Processes: The Dependence on Context and Path.
Dr. Gomez blogs at mariselabgomez.com.
All of Monday’s financial donations will be dedicated to VOLAR unless otherwise indicated by donors.