Donna Mejia is a scholar-practitioner. Her evolution has enduringly centered our emerging global citizenship as we collectively and creatively deconstruct and heal persistent legacies of brutal colonialism and socio-economic hierarchies. Interests and Research Includes 1. Interdisciplinary efforts in complex problem-solving 2. Culturally robust studies in trauma-informed embodiment, interoception, and consciousness (somatic science + neurology + mindfulness) 3. Conflict-resolution efforts (verbal and non-verbal) informed by cultural theory, mindfulness, post-colonial study, social justice, critical race theory, abolitionist histories, and gender studies 4. Gender self-construction, presentation, coding, and non-verbal social signaling 5. Cultural systems and esoteric knowledge sustaining Peoples of the Global Majority 6. Manifestations of generational, regional, and cultural fusion the arts reflecting emerging concepts of global citizenship and polyculturalism—particularly the agency, legal parameters, and attending ethics of those transcultural experiments and actions in both digital and in-person arenas 7. Individual and collective survivorship of trauma and violence, focalized in collaborative work with human trafficking scholars She is the originator of Fumble Forward, a framework for encountering the unexpected, unknown and unfamiliar with increasing confidence and calm. Fumble forward has been an invited keynote for TEDxCU, government organizations, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, schools, has been cited by the Dalai Lama Fellows, and several publications.
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Fumble Forward, Dance, yoga, MENAT, Brazil, the Caribbean, West Africa, North Africa, India, Hip Hop, trauma-informed somatics, Transnationalism, overlapping identities, multi-ethnicity, global citizenship, Digital Diasporas, collective cultural memory production, gender representation, social coding & signaling, ethics, cultural appropriation, gender, ethnomusicology, fusion, trauma-informed somatic programming, communication, Embodiment, Interoception, mindfulness, human trafficking scholars
