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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
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05-2026

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
Emanuel Ayinde- Libsch