Sierra Hicks (They/Them) is an AuDHDer and PhD Student in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell. Sierra has been a Neurodiversity Ambassador for the past couple of years and is passionate about celebrating, analyzing, serving overlapping identities and experiences.
Guest speaker:
Emily Dunuwila, Health Initiatives Coordinator. Emily has over 8 years of experience as a wellness educator and practitioner and has worked with a range of adult and young adult audiences, including administrators in the School District of Philadelphia, clinicians-in-training at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and many K-12 and college student groups. She has developed programs and tools to help people manage stress, including the Calm Space afterschool program at West Philadelphia High School and the Embodiment Toolbox, a guide to mind-body connection, which is used as a teaching tool by the Office of School and Community Partnerships at Penn Graduate School of Education.
The discussion covered research related to stress reduction and attention restoration theories, Nature Rx initiative and Cornell Outdoor Education programming.