The Storydancer Project Team
TEAM TSP
Four talented women with creative backgrounds in health, embodied practices, the arts, and business, work together as a team to give ongoing support to The Storydancer Project’s wellness curriculum of TAKE A MINUTE® transformative self-care movement programs. Team TSP works in conjunction with our partnering organizations to develop and organize program content, deliver facilitator training programs, and create our video resource libraries. Our team collaborates to produce online and live events, raise funds, promote our mission and programs, and undertake all aspects of administration. We plan together, write together, create together, and provide inspiration and support for each other.
Zuleikha
Chara Nelson
Susan Skeele
Rita Fabrizio
ABOUT ZULEIKHA
TSP founder and director Zuleikha is an international performer, teacher and wellness educator with an extensive background in dance, music, meditation and healing arts. She is renowned for her Rumi Concert collaborations with poet Coleman Barks and world musicians, and her TAKE A MINUTE® self-care movement work through The Storydancer Project. Zuleikha is the recipient of a number of humanitarian awards for outstanding work in the world promoting positive personal and social change.
Zuleikha created TSP in 2001 to address the lack of wellness education and resources locally and internationally and to bring rejuvenation and self-care skills to girls, women, children, families and communities. TSP was incorporated as a non-profit in 2006.
TEAM FACILITATORS & CONSULTANTS
TSP BOARD
Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN FAAN, President
– Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics
– Joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins University schools of Nursing and Medicine—Department of Pediatrics—and Berman Institute of Bioethics core faculty
– Co-Chair of the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Consultation Service
– Program Director of the Hopkins Children’s Center’s Harriet Lane Compassionate Care Program
– Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow
William Elliot, Vice President
-Past Chairman of Davis H. Elliot Company Inc.
– On the Board of Directors of a number of community organizations in Virginia
– JD in Law from Washington and Lee University School of Law
– MA in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University
Terry Williams-Keffer, Secretary/Treasurer
– Owner of the highly successful Santa Fe business, WestWind Travel since1984
– Event Coordinator for Pancakes on the Plaza, Santa Fe’s favorite fundraising event for local non-profit organizations
George Burdeau
– Veteran director/ producer; Emmy, Academy & Peabody award-winner, known for Forest Spirits, Surviving Columbus, The Native Americans, and others
– Member of the Blackfeet Nation, First Native American director in the Director’s Guild of America, Rockefeller Fellow
– Founding member, Vision Maker Media; founder, Disney Native American Film & Television Workshop; co-founder, Native American Public Telecommunications
– Served as head of the Communications Department, and founder of the Film and Television Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Kelly Dinéyazhe-Hunter
– Assistant Professor of Early Childhood and Program Consultant at Navajo Technical University
– Served as Manager, UNM-Gallup Early Childhood and Family Center; Reads to Lead Coordinator, Uplift Community School, Gallup, NM
– M.A., Administrative Licensure, UNM; M.Ed, Indian Education Curriculum & Instruction, ASU.; BASc, Early Childhood Multicultural Education, UNM
– Collaborator on TSP Navajo Mothers’ program, Strengthening Hearts and Minds, specializing in facilitating around issues of leadership and family communication
Sheila Goldtooth
– Navajo Nation Medicine Woman/Practitioner from Round Rock, AZ
– Coordinator at the Office of Native Medicine, Gallup Indian Medical Center
– Educator of Navajo Culture and Philosophy, Diné College, Tsaile, AZ
– B.A., Native American Studies & Sociology, Northern Arizona Univ.
– Collaborator on TSP Navajo Mothers’ program, Strengthening Hearts and Minds, specializing in facilitating traditional Diné healing practices
Sunil Sakhalkar
– Architect – MA in Architecture, UNM
– Associate at Suby Bowden & Associates, Architects & Urban Planners, Santa Fe, NM since 1999
– Served as Project Manager, Daniel Romualdez Architect, New York, NY
– Served as Advisory Team member for The Storydancer Project