Workshops and Public Speaking

3 years experience curating and hosting workshops and presentations on topics such as: peer support, burnout treatment, and neurodivergent empowerment.

Speaking or facilitation engagements with: Vermont Mad Pride, Vermont Educators of Color, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, NAMI, and more.

Community Organizing and Co-operative Living Consultation

Over 8 years of experience co-managing 3 separate communal living spaces as well as organizing countless community fundraisers, accessibility focused events

Management and Training Experience

3 years of experience directing The Hope Center Recovery Learning Center: created new organizing systems, staff training plans, experience with budgeting and administrative filing. Specialization in accessibility, and documentation overhaul for program longevity.

Peer Support

5+ years of experience in lived expertise centered mental health support: 1-on-1, groups, and mutual aid formats. Over 1500 hours experience facilitating in a variety of settings including groups, meetings, mediations, and 1-on-1.

Administration and Facilitation

Zines

Creative and Design Experience

Procreate

Canva

Web Design

Graphics and Logo Design

Published Poetry and Op-Eds

Social Media Outreach

Art has always been integral to MJ's worldview. A self-taught artist putting in thousands of work hours over the past 22 years, MJ has used art as a therapeutic tool, advocacy tool, and a way to share their perspective as well as find joy in this world. MJ's work focuses on channeling the challenges of life into empowerment and using art to foster resilience.

Their passion for art has led to experience in building and designing websites such as this one, mutual aid posters, peer support graphics, and logo design. They also have writing experience in genres such as political essay, poetry, and memoir.

House Of Infinity

Program Experience and Affiliations

Grassroots Values

Multi-cultural Solidarity

Whiteness is ingrained everywhere: conflict avoidance, words without action, prescriptive ideas of how we should exist. How do we return to ancestral knowledge and lineage to hone spaces that see us in our wholeness?

Questioning Power Systems

Integrating liberation with our own individual healing needs. Working to subvert harmful standards of most non-profit and mental health institutions. An eye for detail to catch bias and mindsets that often go unseen.

Lived Expertise

Being disabled, mixed-race and white passing, neurodivergent, trans, these things all offer unique wisdom to the world. Supporting community members while minimizing power differential; We all have precious knowledge to share.

Practical Approaches

Encouraging the ideas that work, over what society deems valuable or respectable; creating trauma informed and harm reduction focused spaces that encouraging relearning our truest selves at whatever ability level.

About MJ

MJ Griego(they/them) has a bachelor's degree from Tufts University. They majored in Social justice oriented Sociology and minored in Chinese studies. They have also studied in ShangHai's DaTong International Academy.

They are called to working in lived experience based support, community facilitation, and the organizational processes needed for a more caring world. They take a multi-disciplinary approach: art informs thinking informs activism informs personal relationships.

MJ has extensive experience in many types of facilitation, co-operative housing management, and staff mentorship. MJ has used a variety of platforms for organizing and information management. They have created countless documents and informational resources including: workshops, outreach flyers, social media content, and spreadsheets.

Contact

Feel free to use this form to contact MJ for workshops, peer support resources, consultation, or community building!