Join us for our April 9, 2026 Healing Hour!

Empower Your Finances: Women Taking Control

This presentation is designed to empower women to embrace their unique financial situation and make informed financial decisions to take control of their money! Money is often a very emotional subject for women because they face unique financial challenges like pay inequality, domestic violence and financial abuse, caring for special needs children, taking primary responsibility for finances after the death of a spouse, and many others! This presentation will talk about a woman’s journey with money in an eye-opening educational format. If you are a woman struggling financially or simply are not sure what to do with the money you have, this workshop will provide you with the information and guidance you need to improve your financial position, create generational wealth, and truly take control of your life.

Bio: Chantay is a Certified Financial Educator with over 20 years of experience helping women leaders and entrepreneurs turn financial knowledge into strategic action. Through education, professional guidance, and hands-on implementation, she supports women in making smart money moves, optimizing their finances, and building long-term financial confidence. Her work bridges the gap between strategy and execution, empowering women to lead with clarity and control.

The Body as Archive: Trauma, Power, and Decolonial Repair in Academia

A 90-Minute Virtual Healing Hour for BIPOC Women in Academia

This Healing Hour invites BIPOC women in academia into a space of restoration that does not ask for performance, disclosure, or explanation. Instead, it offers a grounded, collective practice for understanding trauma and body-based awareness as decolonial acts of repair within institutions that have long demanded our endurance while denying our humanity.

For many of us, academic life has required a quiet disciplining of the body—learning to override fatigue, emotion, grief, and intuition to remain legible, productive, and “professional.” What often gets named as burnout, imposter syndrome, or stress is not individual failure, but the accumulated imprint of institutional histories carried in the body.

In this Healing Hour, we will explore how returning attention to the body—neck down, breath by breath—is not self-indulgence, but an act of intellectual, political, and spiritual reclamation. The body will be approached as an archive: holding memory, survival strategies, ancestral knowledge, and unfinished grief.

This session is designed to meet participants exactly where they are. There is no expectation to share personal stories. Participation is always invitational. What matters is presence, consent, and the possibility of feeling less alone.

Facilitator

Dr. Roksana Badruddoja is a scholar, writer, and embodied healing practitioner whose work bridges critical race feminism, trauma studies, and decolonial body-based practices. A tenured professor of sociology, she has spent over two decades working with BIPOC communities inside and outside higher education, exploring how bodies carry institutional memory—and how repair becomes possible through presence, consent, and relational care.