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As Black, female science teacher Kazumi Igus has, for the last 14 years, found herself dedicated to radical access to any and everything that would support students of color. Her love of the environment inadvertently brought her to a Thailand monastery where she experienced her first silent retreat. That experience solidified her path of integrating mindfulness into the school setting. Affectionately known around the West Los Angeles area as Ms. Igus, Kazumi is a Los Angeles native, a UCLA Mindful Awareness Center trained meditation facilitator, and is currently a WholeSchool Mindfulness Director at one of the only predominantly Black high schools in Los Angeles Unified where she wants to transform education to be inherently social-emotionally responsive; explicitly supportive of increasing the ability to focus; and empowering of the students' ability to be emotionally resilient in this increasingly tumultuous time.
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