Our Collective
OUR STRUCTURE & PRINCIPLES.
Inner Fields is organized around principles of transformative, participatory leadership and spiritual friendship. Egalitarian and grassroots by nature, our organizational structure borrows from the wisdom of living systems and matrilineal societies as a model of governance; one which reveres and cares for all life.
Visualizing our organizational structure in the poetic form of Avalokiteshvara or Guan Yin (the Goddess of Compassion), we see each of our public offerings as creative gifts, emblematic of the tools, medicine, nectar, literature, precepts, and instruments Guan Yin holds in her thousand arms and hands; offerings by which to soothe the ten thousand joys and sorrows of the world.
Listening and receptivity is our native state.
Jessica Angima
Sangha Facilitator, Administrative Director
Jessica (she/her) is a first-generation Kenyan American cultural producer and healing artist, working in the modality of meditation. In a constant state of process, she facilitates intimate community through the exploration of art, justice and contemplative practice.
Photo: Angeliea Stark
Darlène Dubuisson
Sangha Facilitator, Administrative Director
Darlène (she/her/they/them/li) holds a Ph.D. in (Engaged/Applied) Anthropology from Columbia University and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in Cultural Anthropology, concentrating in Race, Representation, and Systemic Racism. Darlène works at the intersections of Black feminist theory, crisis, and Black futurity. She is a Dharma and yogic philosophy student dedicated to creating healing justice spaces for women of color.
Pia Mayor
Collective Facilitator, Archivist
Pia (she/her/they/them) like the rest of Nature, is always changing. Creativity, not conformity is her living response. Her ongoing state of becoming has carved avenues of artist advocacy, creative entrepreneurship, environmental/spiritual activism, and transformative change studies. She embraces a community-oriented ethos that help foster creativity, ecological connection, and radical Self-realization as modes for healing and justice.
Amira Pierce
Sangha Facilitator, Community Outreach
Amira (she/her) teaches essay-writing to International students at NYU. Inspired by experiences she's had and stories she's heard living and traveling around the world, she writes fiction and nonfiction with hopes of finding beauty through brokenness. Born in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, Amira speaks Levantine Arabic and studies Quran as a way to connect with her family's traditions and know (and un-know) herself. Along with mentorship and therapy practices, meditation has been a big part of her healing journey.
Photo: Lee Cohen
Amanda Everich
Field Study Facilitator, Archivist
Amanda (they/them) is a queer and nonbinary seed of African diaspora and Ukrainian descent, teaching artist, facilitator, experimental mapmaker, collaborator and farmer-in-training from the Bronx, New York - unceded Wappinger Munsee Lenape land. As a co-founder of alternative education programs, they are trained in Reggio Emilia pedagogies focused on project-based learning that evolves from play, forest school exploration and empowerment through art. Through Map Your Play, they create offerings and hold space for the rituals of decolonizing and becoming through play, mapmaking, creativity and connecting with the ancestral wisdom of the land to empower individual and collective liberation.
Elaine Su-Hui
Founder, Artistic Director
Elaine (she/her) is an artist, facilitator, and dharma practitioner, living in unceded Gadigal country (sydney, australia). Her work aims to be a direct expression of her dharma practice, and an invitation into radical, ecological consciousness as a necessary curriculum for social, economic, and environmental change. As a facilitator and an artist, her intention is to generate meaningful human connection and a felt sense of community, beyond the confines of transactional, consumerist experience. A question is her favourite kind of muse.
Photo: Georgia Blake