Weightless in Mind, Body & Spirit - Episode 3 Season 6: Weighted - The US Imperial Education System

Weightless with Dr. Carol Penn

Featured Guests:

Edwina Fire Thunder – Brown Bull. My Lakota Indian name is “Kla Kla Win” Rattling Woman. That name was given to me to carry on my relative’s honor, who was my great-great grandmother the original landowner allotment. I am currenty Project AWARE SAMHSA• Coordinator of Culturally Informed Trauma Informed Schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation • Little Wound School

Elisabeth Eittreim teaches women’s history, US history, and human rights history at Rutgers University-Newark as well as Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgian Court University.

Teaching Empire is her first book, and it was published in October 2019 by the University Press of Kansas. The book grows out of her history doctoral dissertation which she completed at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2015. Elisabeth also holds a Masters in Human Rights from Columbia University, a Masters in Teaching from Quinnipiac University, and a Bachelor in History from the University of Virginia. She has taught middle school in Connecticut, Washington, DC, and New Jersey, and her teaching experience informs how she approached the book.

Elisabeth has also written and been published on topics including racial reckonings and violence in the US, COVID-19 among native communities, gun violence in the US, and several book reviews.

Elisabeth lives in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, where she and her husband are raising their 3 children.

Dr. Kathy Farah, MD is certified with the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Integrative Medicine and is a Diplomate in the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine.

Dr. Farah is an Associate Clinical Director with the Center for Mind Body Medicine, the world’s effective evidenced-based program for healing population wide psychological trauma and stress. She is a Clinical Lead for the VISN 8 program which incorporates MInd-Body Medicine and the Whole Health Program in Florida, South Georgia and Puerto Rico for our country’s veterans. She is the Clinical Lead for the Native American and Indigenous programs. These initiatives support local leaders and healers in communities such as Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D. to combine indigenous wisdom with cultural ways of healing to strengthen resilience.

Dr. Farah has practiced full spectrum family medicine in Western Wisconsin for over 30 years, including 11 years with Mayo Clinic. She provides Integrative and Holistic Medicine at Western Wisconsin Health.

Dr. Farah has been a consultant to families and children in the Pain, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine Department at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis MN 17 years. In those roles she utilizes trauma informed Mind-Body skills, Craniosacral therapy and Heartmath.

Claire Garland:

MEd Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University

NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs Resource Person

NJ Historical Commission Award of Recognition

NJHC Co Chair of Year of Indigenous People & Culture

Friend of Education Award Monmouth County Education Association

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