I am a circle keeper, a scholar-practitioner, an integral feminist educator bridging Social Justice and Spiritual transformation.
Born and raised in the territory that is known today as San José, Costa Rica, back at home, I worked as a Bodywork practitioner and a Yoga and a Somatics educator.
As a woman of color with Afro-Meztiza lineages raging from Nicaragua to Europe and Huetar and Chorotega heritages, I am committed to cross-cultural liberatory praxis that reflects my deep respect and service to Mother Earth, as well as to Radical Collective Transformation.
Currently living in occupied Tamien Ohlone land, so-called Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area, I serve as a Popular Educator and Leadership Development Coordinator, integrating Transformative and Restorative practices within a collective of community leaders in the Neighborhood of Mayfair in East San Jose. I also work as a Spanish-bilingual Arts Integration Specialist with the Santa Clara County office of Education.
I lived in Chochenyo territory aka the East Bay for five years, there, I volunteered as a Reproductive Justice activist, a full spectrum doula and provided space for community healing through Native American ceremonies, in the Mexicayotl tradition.
I am a gentle but firm group facilitator, and have had the privilege of higher education, holding a master’s degree in Women, Gender, Spirituality, and Social Justice from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. My inquiries are centered in embodiment, Indigenous and experiential ways of knowing, expanded states of consciousness, Abuelita wisdom, foodways, the arts, ecofeminism, and community resilience.
