Emanuel Ayinde- Libsch
Costa Mesa,CA
Summary
As an expressive arts therapy student, I bring over 9 years of deeply rewarding experience in community organizing and social justice-based youth work. My journey has been driven by a deep commitment to the well-being and empowerment of young people, especially BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Throughout my career, I've worn various hats-from program facilitator to healing coordinator as well as other leadership and recreational roles.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Theraputic Peer Mentor
The Home for Little Wanderers
Roxbury Crossing
01.2022 - 05.2024
- Met with assigned youth to navigate hardships, provide mentoring, and advocate for needs
- Developed and ran trainings for staff education on gender and sexual orientation, race, and transformative justice
- Developed curriculum and facilitated Music Therapy & Artistry groups
- Specialized in advocating and working with neurodivergent youth as well as those with trauma based mental health concerns.
Lead Facilitator
The City School
Boston, MA
07.2020 - 12.2021
- Led trainings and developed agendas for youth programs centering transformative justice, community organizing, as well as racial and healing justice
- Facilitated Indigenous-Latinx affinity space and LGBTQIA+ Affinity
- Provided support for youth around their goals, understanding of the program, and personal life
- Created meditations and grounding exercises for group.
Youth Advisory Board Project Lead Consultant
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
09.2020 - 03.2021
- Consulted youth-led research project consisting of 8 youth of color ages 14-25 around generational trauma and experiences of people of color at Boston Medical Center
- Counseled Boston Medical Center department heads on how to center the voices of BIPOC youth, hold space and build relationships with youth advisors
- Created community-building and healing justice activities for youth advisors in the project
- Assisted with grant writing for the project.
Teacher
The Freedom School
Boston, MA
06.2019 - 09.2020
- Taught reading curriculum to kindergartners centered in empowering Children of Color
- Created activities for class centering love, community and making a difference
- Organized protests with children in the program around community violence.
Healing Justice Facilitator and Supervisor
Boston University
Boston, MA
06.2019 - 06.2020
- Supervised and trained employees around program agendas
- Created and ran a retreat curriculum around spiritual healing in social justice frameworks
- Created community-building activities centering on youth experiences in homelessness
- Held space for ancestral practices around collaborative healing.
Project Manager/Adult Facilitator
Boston Medical Center/ Boston University
Boston, MA
06.2018 - 12.2018
- Directed program for 10 youths of color, focusing on researching the healing, needs, and experiences of youth of color in Boston
- Created group activities around community building and vulnerability
- Ran workshops around identification and systems of oppression with youth scholars
- Trained scholars on the different components of research and helped to create surveys for the community
- Presented findings and experience in front of a fundraising ypGala.,
Racial Reconciliation and Healing Program Intern
Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center
Boston, MA
10.2016 - 06.2017
- Worked in group of mixed race affinities to learn about the different ways systemic racism/oppression manifests in life
- Worked in affinities to process and understand what healing looks like with personal identities
- Trained on how to facilitate healing spaces around systemic oppression.
Education
Bachelor's - Expressive Arts Therapy & Holistic Psychology
Lesley University
true05-2026
Skills
- Mentoring
- Holistic Wellness
- Grant Writing
- Classroom Management
- Fundraising
- Program & Curriculum Development
- Management
- LGBTQIA counseling
Certification
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, 01/01/22, Present
- CPR Certification
Timeline
Theraputic Peer Mentor
The Home for Little Wanderers
01.2022 - 05.2024
Youth Advisory Board Project Lead Consultant
Boston Medical Center
09.2020 - 03.2021
Lead Facilitator
The City School
07.2020 - 12.2021
Teacher
The Freedom School
06.2019 - 09.2020
Healing Justice Facilitator and Supervisor
Boston University
06.2019 - 06.2020
Project Manager/Adult Facilitator
Boston Medical Center/ Boston University
06.2018 - 12.2018
Racial Reconciliation and Healing Program Intern
Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center
10.2016 - 06.2017
Bachelor's - Expressive Arts Therapy & Holistic Psychology
Lesley University
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, 01/01/22, Present
- CPR Certification
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