I believe in people. I want us to show up as the highest version of ourselves.

My name is Daria. I am a commitment to ending cycles of violence. 

I teach Transformative Justice skills through the body. 

I created Accountability Mapping to build our collective capacity for accountability in a transformative way. I was already doing this work - for those I love who harmed me, 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 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 neurodivergent and my pronouns are he/him. I welcome feedback about my work. 

Thank you for your support.

In 2008, I was a  Harm Reduction counselor at the Berkeley Free Clinic who stumbled into  a Transformative Justice workshop at the Critical Resistance  conference on abolishing the prison industrial complex.  My whole body said - "YES - THIS." 

I was a founding member of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, a project initiated by Mia Mingus in 2011 to end child sexual abuse, and helped build out its structure over the course of three years.  In 2012, I began training with Generative Somatics - a Transformative Justice- based  healing and social change methodology (Courses: Social Justice Embodied Leadership, Somatics Trauma & Resilience).  My understanding of Transformative Justice is rooted  in the work of GenerationFive.

After medically transitioning in 2017, I realized my life-long dream of becoming a dancer - as practice of living in the aliveness and power of my body.  Today I am deepening connection with my ancestral lineages. I study Medical Qi Gong (AIMC), Medical Mediumship (Dr. Vest) and the Yìjīng (I-Ching) and Chinese Bazi Astrology (missTANQ). 

I have a BA in Public Health from UC Berkeley, with a focus on Community Health.