Saturday, March 29, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ
Stories from Ethnoautobiographical Engagement with the Land
with Michelle Boyle, Kimberly Davis, Dawn Johnson Harvey and Allison Smith
- Spirit in Stones, Michelle Boyle
- A Druidic Account of the Healing Earth, Dawn Johnson Harvey
- Black Women Remember: The Reemergence of the Primordial Mothers for Personal, Political, and Planetary Healing, Kimberly Davis
- Myth & Migration: Sicilian Folktales Take Root in New Ecologies, Allison Smith
Michelle Boyle, MA, recently returned from a year doing fieldwork as a guest researcher at the University of Torino, Italy. She is currently completing her doctorate, on ancestral healing and intergenerational trauma, in East West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Michelle is a mother, grandmother, counselor, and healer, and lives with her youngest child and four-footed family on Caddo and Wichita territory in north Texas.
Dr. Kimberly J. Davis is a spiritual scholar, author, teacher, life coach, and intuitive healer. She is the founder of Journey to Wholeness Center and Journey Healing Institute. Kimberly holds a PhD in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Women’s Spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies and an MBA in Finance from DePaul University. Her scholarship centers the lived experiences of African American women as they navigate and heal the soul-wounding effects of historical trauma through embodied spiritualities.
Dawn Johnson Harvey, MS, LMHC is a PhD student in East-West Ecopsychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She also holds a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and provides trauma-informed narrative therapy. Her dissertation explores the decolonization of the self in the community through Ethnoautobiography, a process of critical self-inquiry to unlearn Whiteness and reawaken ancestral ties with the integral earth community.
Dr. Ying Xu earned a BA and MA in English in China and a Ph.D. in English from UNM, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature and Asian American literature. A contributor to OUPblog and Oxford Bibliographies, her latest work was featured in MLA’s special collection on Teaching. She translated Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, published in 2023, and is currently translating Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave, set for release in 2025.
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