This session focused on “AAPI Mental Health” and featured Zara Chaudary, Global DEIB Impact Manager at PowerToFly, joined by April Frazier.
Through a Q&A format, they dove deeper into the AAPI community, their unique perspectives, and how to support them further, all while keeping a lens on mental health.
In the spirit of continued learning, we're sharing access to the Courageous Conversation so that you can watch it on your own time and learn more from our subject matter expert.
About Our Subject Matter Expert
April considers herself a compassionate disrupter of inequity and restorative reconnector to people’s strengths. Prior to being a mindfulness and educational consultant, April was a teacher at a resilient middle school in the South Bronx. April was part of the inaugural cohort at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University where she received her Master’s Degree in Spirituality and Mindfulness in 2016. She also holds a MS education from Fordham University, and a BS in International Relations, Community Development and Educational Studies with a focus on Anti-Racist education from Mount Holyoke College.
She then created Ahimsa MY LLC, focusing on bringing mindfulness and yoga to schools and educational organizations as a means to cultivate present teachers and self-empowered students. April hopes that the practices of mindfulness can reconnect teachers and young people back to their inner resources of breath and body to navigate external uncertainties. April has partnered with schools across the country as well as numerous service organizations. She is a teacher with the Lineage Project, an organization that teaches trauma-informed mindfulness to incarcerated adjacent young people and staff who support them. She also was a program facilitator with Mindful Schools, an international mindfulness organization supporting in integrating mindfulness into school communities. April has been working with restorative justice, trauma informed practices, diversity and equity, and mindfulness for over ten years. April’s greatest joy is being a foster mother.
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