is a Jewish public health professional, community organizer, grief tender, licensed massage therapist, Reiki practitioner, and movement enthusiast. An activist at heart, she is passionate about organizing collaborative community initiatives centered on mindfulness, dialogue, and the healing and creative arts to address pressing societal issues and create a more just and compassionate planet. Witnessing profound transformations in her clients after receiving the simplest warm touch from her hands before massaging, she was inspired to create environments and communities in the wake of COVID-19 to connect with ourselves and others non-sexually through touch; to reform our relationship of touch from one of fear to one of security, comfort, belonging, and care. 

She is also the co-founder of Collective Effervescence, a Boston-based community collective offering substance-free, donation-based events for mindful, mind-expanding individuals to reconnect with what it means to be human in an urban society—through shared presence, food, music, play, movement, authentic relating, collaborative art, and compassionate touch.

With over half a decade of experience as a massage therapist, she continues to teach, explore, and learn about touch and embodied relating through contact improvisation, yoga, authentic relating, consent education, and somatic grief work. You can read more about her offerings at soltacto.com.