Bonnibel loves to dance, craves chocolate, loves reading and learning more about Afro-Latinx history, music and dance. Currently, she works as a College Coordinator at Sadie Nash Leadership Project, a young women's and gender expansive youth organization that aims to center their empowerment and joy. It was through this work that she first connected with Hidden Water in 2017. It was Centro Corona's elders, indigenous leaders and intergenerational community that allowed her to grow into her practice.
Bonnibel was first introduced to circle practice, mediation, and community work at Centro Corona (formerly known as IMI Corona), where she served her two years of Public Allies Americorps. She is Puerto Rican of Dominican descent and comes from many homes: Puerto Rico, New Orleans, DC, Queens and has a special place in her heart for the ‘Nordeste’ of Brazil. Anne Marie has a Masters degree in Conflict Resolution and Mediation.īonnibel (she/her/ella) is a Latinx educator passionate about gender justice, the fight against gender violence, (im)migration, equity and community-led movement. Anne Marie believes strongly that using a structured conversation supported by a transformative process gives power back to groups and communities so that together they can set things right, allowing true healing to happen and people to move on. She has conducted many community and workplace conferences using Circles of Support and Restorative Conferences as powerful processes to repair harm, restore relationships, and settle on meaningful reparation.
Employed as a workplace counselor, Anne Marie was first on the scene when organizations were shaken by traumatic or violent events, offering psychological first aid and critical incident debriefing to groups and individuals impacted by harm. As a social worker and community development coordinator she used Circle processes to support people with traumatic brain damage return to their families and communities after long periods of hospitalization. Anne Marie has been facilitating group processes to address harm and hurt for many years.
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