Nationally recognized as a facilitator and trainer, Lula is a guiding force behind community-based “Sister Circles”—sacred healing spaces where women seeking truth gather to build authentic relationships, deepen sisterhood, and access tools for personal and collective transformation. These circles weave together meditation, mindfulness, movement, journaling, nature connection, and storytelling as pathways to remembrance, healing, and self-determination. Through this work, participants are supported in reclaiming their voices, honoring their truths, and co-creating rituals that restore balance and wholeness.

Lula’s life’s work is grounded in a profound vision: that women’s gifts as leaders and healers are recognized, affirmed, and nurtured across all stages of life—from girlhood through elderhood. Her leadership is rooted in both community practice and ancestral wisdom traditions.

An initiated Elder in the tradition of the Dagara People of Burkina Faso, West Africa, Lula trained extensively with Dr. Malidoma Somé. She completed a three-year ritual leadership apprenticeship and a two-year advanced course of study in Indigenous African Spiritual Technology and the Healing Wisdom of Africa. From 2013 to 2016, she co-facilitated the Ritual Healing Village and Certification for Ritual Leaders programs in Cherry Plain, New York. In 2023, she led the relaunch of the East Coast Ritual Healing Village as its principal facilitator and ritual leader.

Throughout her career, Lula has worked in deep partnership with communities of color, answering what she describes as a call from the Ancestors. From 1997 to 2012, she led the Boston Black Women’s Health Institute, building a powerful model for culturally rooted health advocacy. She has since collaborated with numerous healing justice initiatives, including Seeds of Our Ancestors, a mobile, intergenerational healing collective; and Sistahs of the Calabash, with whom she co-founded the ILE ASE School of Ancestral Rites (2020–2022). This school offers integrative practices in ancestral medicine, land stewardship, energy healing, and Indigenous knowledge systems, supporting communities in reclaiming their roots and strengthening traditional healing lineages.

Lula is especially known for her work as an Elder and Ritual Leader facilitating Community Grief Rituals. These rituals create sacred space for individuals and communities to process loss related to death, relationships, identity, dreams deferred, and ancestral trauma. Through this work, participants are guided to “lay down their burdens,” releasing grief, shame, and guilt while reconnecting to a deeper sense of wholeness and belonging. She has held grief rituals for a range of communities and organizations, including movement spaces, healing collectives, and community-based initiatives throughout the Northeast.

In addition, Lula offers intensive Ancestral Rites of Passage programs, initiating participants into Dagara cosmology and elemental wisdom traditions as pathways for healing, self-agency, and ancestral connection.

At the heart of all her work is a commitment to collective healing and transformation—honoring the past, tending the present, and shaping a future where women’s leadership, wisdom, and spiritual gifts are fully realized.