Hi, I’m Romeo.
I grew up in New York and Washington States, and now call Florence, MA home. I love working with individuals, groups, and organizations to find more joy, ease, and sustainability - whether that’s in movement work, education, youth work, or within our own movement practices. I see my two areas of work - organizational consulting and movement coaching - as deeply connected and interwoven, and you can read about my approaches to consulting & movement coaching below. When I’m not working, I’m writing poetry, practicing aerial silk skills, making jewelry, spending time in rivers/oceans/woods, and enjoying the small details of life with my loved ones. I proudly identify as queer, mixed race, Boricua, and Jewish.
As a consultant, I bring a unique expertise, gleaning from direct experience in non-profit leadership, graduate studies in Social Justice Education, 10+ years as an educator and organizer. For the last 5 years, I’ve worked as a consultant across many organizations and institutions in educational and non-profit settings to support with professional development, leadership coaching, organizational culture, conflict, anti-oppression, and more. I believe in being relational, effective, and solutions-oriented when working alongside organizations facing difficulty.
I have had the immense privilege of becoming immersed in the world of transformative justice and youth organizing (most recently as the co-director of Pa’lante Transformative Justice in Holyoke). I see transformative justice as a framework for engaging with many kinds of inequity and friction in our world, and bring this lens into my work as a consultant. In transformative justice, we keep an eye on changing systems, while turning towards our people. We tend, invoke many voices and many truths, create shared wisdom, collaborate to find unique solutions for unique situations. Harm is inevitable, but how we respond and work with harm is where transformation is most possible. On an organizational level, we can use this framework to assess and course-correct across many different problems that arise: changing organizational structures, assessing and reflecting on the work, strategy, workplace culture, and more.
I’d love to join you and your organization in this work.
As a movement coach/personal trainer, I believe that our wellness and embodiment practices are inherently political. Moving our bodies is our birthright, and yet so much can get in the way of accessing that right — time, resources, confidence, pain, fear, shame. I believe that movement is a healing practice. I believe in the inherent wisdom of our bodies to adapt towards health whenever possible. I believe that movement is necessary to live well and I want to reduce barriers for people to be able to access that kind of movement in their lives.
I am a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) as well as a Circus & Aerials Teacher at SHOW Circus Studio in Easthampton. I bring these two approaches together with a Masters degree in Social Justice Education and 7 years of experience as a transformative justice facilitator into my work as a personal trainer. I see movement practice as transformative justice within oneself. We are constantly learning how to be in better relationship with our bodies and our selves. Movement is one path in that process.
I’d love to join you in this work.
