Kusum Crimmel
she/her
Kusum Crimmel, LCSW, is a facilitator of transformational change and generative conflict in service of healing, truth-telling, and collective wholeness. With more than two decades of experience working with youth and adults across mental health, restorative justice, and somatics, her work helps individuals and communities navigate conflict, complexity, and difference with rigor and relational depth. Kusum is currently a part of the OUSD Behavioral Health Team, supporting mental health emergencies and needs across Oakland Unified School District. She recently launched Facing In (facingin.org), an organizational community transforming harm, division and trauma into healing, connection and collective liberation. In her spare time, she is working on her first documentary film, Untangling Whiteness: a path to wholeness, while parenting her teenage daughter.
Overview: This is an offering for memory collection, of upholding a day of reckoning in 2019 for white bodied people to acknowledge the 400 year anniversary of the first enslaved African people brought to the shores of what is now called the United States. The sharing of this Ritual of Remembrance is a way to keep it in the collective memory and to inspire us to be in ritual, to seek ancestral memory while creating new rituals, to acknowledge the history, while also dreaming into the future.
