About Us

Our Team

Stosh Cotler

Stosh Cotler (she/her/hers) is the founder of the Community Resiliency Circles. For over 30 years, Stosh has worked with trauma survivors to increase their options for safety, resilience, and survival. When the crisis of Covid-19 hit NYC, she recognized the likelihood that many frontline health care workers would develop PTSD, including her partner who is an Emergency Room doctor in the Bronx. She gathered a brilliant team and together they launched this initial offering in NYC with a vision of supporting Collective Resiliency Circles across the country.

Stosh is the CEO of a national social justice organization and spends her days fighting authoritarianism and working to build an inclusive, multi-racial democracy.

Liz Rubel

Liz Rubel (she/hers) handles the logistics and scheduling needs for Community Resiliency Circles. Currently in a Masters program for Museum Studies, Liz’s background is in healing arts programming working for The Creative Center. Before Covid-19, her work was contracted at Bellevue Hospital, NYU Cancer Center, and Woodhull Hospital providing free jewelry and arts workshops for patients as they receive their chemotherapy infusions. Not knowing when she will be back in those settings with her patients and staff, Liz has given her time to support the NYC frontline healthcare workers in this way. Thank you for all you are doing.

Nadia Roumani

Nadia Roumani is a design and strategy consultant for social sectory leaders. She is also the senior designer with Stanford University d.school's Designing for Social Systems Program.

Maya C. Acevedo

Maya C. Acevedo (she/her/hers) is project manager of Collective Resiliency Circles. She works with New World Consulting as project manager and has been facilitating a diversity of groups for over a decade. In the last five years, she has emphasized wholisitic sexuality education; she is passionate about people’s whole well-being. As a Mexican/Puerto Rican born in the USA, she is a defender of bilingual and multicultural spaces and workshops.

She graduated with a BA from Vassar College, where she focused on Native American Studies and Environmental Studies. Currently, she is a Masters candidate in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice within the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Facilitators

Aminta Steinbach

In her 30 years working with young people, teens and adults, Aminta was been a Self Defense Instructor, Youth Leadership Mentor, Leadership Coach and Program Director. Aminta majored in Community Studies, has studied mindfulness/meditation, nonviolent communication and trauma recovery and is a lifelong student of martial arts. Her areas of expertise as a capacity builder include Cultural Competency, Health and Safety Awareness and Community Building. Aminta is an enthusiastic cheerleader for her coaching clients, listens attentively, pays attention to details and acts as a compassionate guide through even the most difficult transitions. Aminta has a third degree black belt in Kajukenbo, and when not working you can usually find her kicking and punching her way to a more peaceful world.

Claudia Horwitz

Claudia has been a leader in national efforts to integrate the power of spiritual practice and the work of social justice. Her book The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work, and Your World (Penguin Compass 2002) is a practical guide to individual and social transformation through spirit and faith. She is on the leadership development faculty for the Annie E. Casey Foundation and directs Rise Up, a project funded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation to nourish the soul of Jewish social justice work.

Martha Ramos Duffer

Martha Ramos Duffer is a licensed clinical psychologist, motivational speaker, trainer, leadership coach, and organizational consultant based in Austin, Texas. Inspired by the evolving fields of neuropsychology, behavioral economics, and interpersonal neurobiology, along with transnational feminisms and critical race theory, Martha saw the need for personal and organizational change processes that brought together contemporary and ancestral wisdom of people and communities while synthesizing scientific inquiry on human minds and behavior, leadership, organizational development, and systemic power inequities. This led to the formation of Quantum Possibilities, an organizational growth consulting firm that applies contemporary research, as well as Racial Equity, Wellness, and Appreciative Inquiry frameworks to support people and organizations to grow and thrive.

Maura Bairley

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