My name is Daria and I am a commitment to ending intergenerational cycles of violence. At Accountability Mapping, I teach Transformative Justice skills through the body.
I created Accountability Mapping to build our collective capacity for accountability in a transformative way. I began doing this work for those I love who harmed me, and for myself when I've harmed those I love. I offer this experiment as a culmination of my own fragile successes, spectacular failures and ongoing learning in self-accountability. I want to share what I know because we need tools now, we needed them yesterday.
As a transgender person, I understand the body as a site of possibility and transformation. Accountability Mapping synthesizes Transformative Justice principles with Qi Gong practices and somatic exploration. The body becomes a doorway on a journey of change - moving you toward alignment with what matters.
I am a Russian and Chinese-Kazakhstani refugee and settler raised on Ohlone land (San Francisco Bay Area). I am a survivor of child sexual abuse and trafficking. I am Autistic, chronically ill and disabled. My pronouns are he/him. You can learn more about me and my work on the Emergent Strategy Podcast, season 2 episode 6.
I am also an anti-disciplinary artist and a BaZi Chinese Astrologer.
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In 2008 I was a Harm Reduction counselor at the Berkeley Free Clinic. I heard about transformative justice for the first time at the CR10 conference on abolishing the prison industrial complex that fall ... and my whole body said "YES - THIS."
In 2010 I had the opportunity to attend a TJ training led by GenerationFive, whose vision was to end child sexual abuse in five generations. I am a survivor of CSA, and I joined Mia Mingus as a founding member of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective in 2011. In 2012, I began training with Generative Somatics - a transformative justice-based healing and social change methodology.
After medically transitioning in 2017, I finally realized my childhood dream of studying dance - as practice of living in the aliveness and power of my body.
In 2020 I began deepening connection with my ancestral lines. I studied Medical Mediumship with Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest, and the Yìjīng (I-Ching) and Chinese Bazi Astrology with Yu Hua Meng. In 2021, I completed the Medical Qi Gong program at AIMC * and a 6-month long program on Internal Family Systems Therapy at the IFS Institute.
In 2023 I launched Red Rabbit Astrology, where I use Chinese Astrology to help BIPOC chart the course of their destiny. You can hear more about me and my work on the Emergent Strategy Podcast, season 2 episode 4.
I have a BA in Public Health from UC Berkeley with a focus on Community Health, (but also they arrested me along with hundreds of other students in the 2009 wave of student protests, so FTP).
* and I strongly recommend studying with an Asian or POC practitioner outside of an institution instead
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