Jia (she/her)

I am a somatic mind body coach, intuitive energy healer, shaman, creative educator, and social justice entrepreneur. I am the passionate founder and CEO of Freedom Dream Collective, LLC, a dynamic coaching and consulting firm dedicated to fostering the holistic wellbeing of mission driven individuals, communities and organizations.

In recent years, I served as the founding director of the Solidarity Building Initiative for Liberative Carceral Education (SBI) at McCormick Theological Seminary, a higher education in jail program. I also served as an SBI adjunct, facilitating courses and workshops at the intersection of personal and social transformation at the Cook County Department of Corrections.  

I hold a Master of Arts in Public Ministry from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. I am a certified coach, shamanic Reiki practitioner, grief tender, intuitive counselor and am training to be a meditation practitioner and nusta paqo (shaman) of the Apaz family lineage of the Qero Nation in Cusco, Peru.