About Tali
Humanitarian Educator. Resilience Coach. Lifelong Student of Human Strength
For more than twenty years, I have worked alongside learners, educators, communities, and organizations facing crisis, change, and adversity across Africa, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. As an Education in Emergencies specialist, I have supported responses to armed conflict, displacement, climate-related disasters, and other complex humanitarian challenges, working with ministries of education, children, teachers, families, schools, communities, NGOs, and international organizations to protect learning and strengthen resilience. Today, I bring those same lessons of adaptation and growth into my work as a resilience coach, supporting individuals as they move through life’s challenges and transitions.
My Story
My understanding of resilience was not learned solely through professional training or humanitarian work. It was shaped long before that. My life has included significant personal adversity—childhood experiences that required me to develop coping strategies at an early age, a life‑threatening tropical disease that demanded years of treatment and recovery, and, more recently, the unexpected loss of what I believed was my dream job after more than two decades in a career I loved.
Each of these experiences, and others, brought uncertainty, grief, fear, hopelessness, frustration, and profound change. They forced me to confront questions of identity, purpose, and how to move forward when the path ahead was unclear and even sometimes appearing impossible. While I would never have chosen these challenges, they taught me something essential: resilience is not about being untouched by hardship. It is about learning how to live through it, make meaning from it, and emerge with deeper clarity and self‑awareness.
Looking back, I can see how my personal history and professional path are connected. Long before I had the language for “resilience” or “Education in Emergencies,” I was learning how to navigate uncertainty and draw on inner and external resources to keep going. Later, in my work, I found myself standing alongside individuals- from adolescents to seniors- confronting crisis, displacement, loss, conflict, and disaster. In many ways, I was supporting others to do what I had spent much of my own life learning to do: locate what holds them up, or what can support them, and find a way forward through adversity.
This realization deepened my understanding of resilience. It is not just a professional domain or a set of tools; it is a lived practice and a deeply human capacity that exists within each of us
From systems to individuals
Across my career, whether working with ministries of education, school systems, or individuals, my role has rarely been to arrive with all the answers. Instead, I support communities facing conflict, displacement, and climate‑related disasters to recognize what they already have locally, develop practical strategies, and build systems that would enable them not only to withstand shocks, but to adapt, recover, and grow stronger over time.
Today, I see the same principle at work in coaching. Just as communities hold local knowledge, networks, and assets that can be mobilized in times of crisis, individuals carry within themselves a set of values, experiences, relationships, and abilities that can support them through change. My coaching is grounded in a philosophy of empowerment: resilience is not something we give to people, but something we help them discover, trust, and use more intentionally.
My role is to offer a space for reflection and insight, where clients can reconnect with their own inner and outer resources and develop sustainable ways of drawing on them—not only for the challenges they are living now, but for those they may encounter in the future.
Credentials & experience
My coaching is shaped by both lived experience and more than two decades of professional work supporting resilience, learning, and human development in diverse cultural and crisis‑affected contexts.
I hold a Master of Arts in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Spanish from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). I am a certified Trauma‑Informed Coach through Moving the Human Spirit and have completed specialized training in safeguarding and child protection with Save the Children.
Professionally, I have worked across Sub‑Saharan Africa, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, accompanying individuals and institutions through crisis, change, and recovery. Having lived and worked in multiple countries and cultures, I speak six languages and currently offer coaching in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Perhaps my most important ongoing teacher in resilience, growth, and humility is another role I hold closest to my heart: being the mother of an adolescent. Parenting continues to remind me daily about patience, adaptation, connection, and the courage it takes to keep learning and evolving alongside those we love.
You can read more about my professional background on LinkedIn.
My coaching approach
I work with people- youth to seniors- who are in periods of transition, burnout, overwhelm, uncertainty, loss, or significant life and career change—particularly those who spend much of their lives caring for or supporting others. My approach is grounded in deep listening, curiosity, compassion, and a belief in each person’s existing capabilities.
I do not see people as problems to be fixed. I see them as whole human beings who may be tired, stretched, feeling hopeless or stuck, experiencing pain or trauma, or perhaps merely uncertainty. Together, we create a thoughtful, non‑judgmental space to explore what is happening, uncover possibilities, clarify what matters most, and move forward with a stronger sense of alignment and direction.
Whether you are moving through a professional transition, recovering from a difficult season, seeking greater balance, or feeling called toward something not yet fully defined, my role is to be a companion and thought partner as you navigate what comes next
Why Morabeza?
Morabeza is a Cape Verdean word that embodies warmth, connection, hospitality, and belonging.
For me, it captures the very qualities that allow resilience to flourish.
We are not meant to navigate life's challenges alone. Growth happens through connection. Healing happens through compassion. Resilience is strengthened through relationships, community, and a sense of belonging.
Morabeza Resilience was born from this belief.
It is a space where warmth meets strength, where challenge can become growth, and where individuals and organizations are supported to navigate change with greater resilience, purpose, and possibility.
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