Dr. Gina Subia Belton is core faculty in the Mind-Body Medicine Program and directs the Contemplative End of Life Care Specialization (CEOL). She is a transdisciplinary educator who teaches in CEOL, Transformative Social Change, Integrative Social Work, and Ph.D. Psychology programs. Raised in California by generations of Elders and Ancestors, long before "the border crossed them," her ChicanX and Mescalero Apache identity is alive in Mezistaje consciousness, grounding her ethnothanatological research and decolonial praxis. Dr. Belton is the inaugural Chair of the President's JEDI Council at Saybrook University.