Dr. Yaa Élombe-Dessalines on Clubhouse

Bio

Club house Bio

Ayitian born in Petion Ville. The great grandchild of Victoire Jean-Paul Devilme. I was raised in “The Lakou Place Boyer”.
I attended La Sagess until I was 5 years old. I soon joined my parents in Brooklyn, and lived on Saint John Place and attended the catholic school St Theresa of Avila. I did my first communion there. I was around 9 years old when I was sent back to Ayiti to live with my uncle Ereck. He lived in carefoure less than a mile away from the 🏖️ beach. Then, I transferred to a boarding school, really a hotel. The owners I believed were the Raucourt. While at the boarding school I attended College Bird in Port-Au-Prince. (College Bird was no longer after the earthquake).

I went to school in Ayiti for 3-years, then I returned to Brooklyn, NY. I graduated from Midwood H.S; afterwards I attended C.W.Post College where I received my Bachelor’s in psychology; I worked for a large child welfare agency for 25 years; I went to graduate school to obtain my Master’s from Central Michigan University and I recently completed my Doctorate of Ministry in Education and Pastoral Counseling (D.Min) from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institutes of Religion.

I always joke with myself and asked how did a little Black girl from Ayiti ended at a Jewish school. What I can say- that’s the path the ancestors put me on. It took me 3 years to complete the 2- years interfaith program,
a cohort program, but it did changed my life. It has been my revelation, a paradigm shift, an awakening to a conscious mindfulness approach to my life. I began to research and seek to better understand my indigenous spiritual roots and began to practice African Spiritual Traditions.

I remembered during an examination the question asked for an example of the theory “identification with the aggressor “ which was coined by Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund Eric Freud.

My response was that the Ayitian revolution was just that. Sick and tired of being sick and tired of their atrocities- we gave it back. Of course my true preface is that our revolution is based on the theology of Black liberation, Abolitionism & Sovereignty.

Today, I work with a rural farming community in Jacmel, Haiti- www.APAMHaiti.Org. Be on the lookout for BOUJONNEN Nascent Foundation Inc to be incorporated as a 501. (C) 3 soon.

I am a board member at www.Blackwomensblueprint.Org. We have a reconciliation center, an intentional community of women-matriarch village, and an organic farm.