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ANDEAN COSMOLOGY ECO-KINSHIP
INDIGENOUS SPECULATIVE STORYTELLING + FOLKLORE
ANCESTRAL CEREMONY + RITUAL UNBORDERED BEING INDIGENOUS FUTURISM AS LIBERATION + HEALING
TIERRA OF MY WORK
My work has been across multiple fields, but ones that are inherently overlaid in a transdisciplinary way. From my mental health and healing work to my academic and scholarship work to my Indigenous medicine and ceremonial work, along with my writing and storytelling work, they are all part of a singular beating heart of meaning-making.
In my indigenized approach and worldview, born out of the Andean mountains where my own heart beat for the first time, there is no such thing as separate fields of being. Everything is part of a whole, just as we are a part of a whole of beingness alongside our ayllu (relatives) of human and more-than-human kin. The lines that divide the chambers of our heart-life experience have been constructed to divide us -- within ourselves and between each other. These false border walls of our daily lives were constructed between the time of our ancestors and the time of our descendants.
Our descendants will unwrite the border walls that divide us and restore our collective world to wholeness. Our work, in the in-between, is to prepare the soil, nurture the early growth, and begin to vision an evolutionary ecosystem for the next Pachakuti (prophecy) season of the world.
I would love to be in conversation with you about how my speaking, teaching, space facilitation (workshops, retreats), and consulting support might align with/deepen the work you are doing in the world, whether in academic or philanthropic institutions, community-based organizations, or nonprofits, and whatever other spaces you might inhabit.
We are in a season that calls for bridge-building, for us all to be chaka runa (bridge beings) across our different spheres to reintegrate, re-imagine, and future-build together.
RECENT + UPCOMING TALKS:
Mama Coca's Resilience: Ceremony, Conflict, and a Multi-Species and Trans-Territorial Andean Futurism, Native American & Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Conference, July 2026 (Temuco, Chile)
Storying Mama Coca: A Transmission & Transmutation In a Leaf’s Journey From the Andes to the Diaspora, The Folklore Society Conference, June 2026 (Aberdeen, Scotland & virtual)
Mama Coca’s Kinship: Ceremonial and Medicinal Connection with the Coca Leaf Across Time, Territory, and Struggle in the Indigenous Andes, Society for Ethnobotany Conference, May/June 2026 (Montpellier, France)
Mama Coca's Kinship as Counter-Colonial Praxis: A Collective Practice of Ceremony, Multi-Species Story-Making and Transterritorial Relationality, Cultural Studies Association Conference, May 2026 (virtual)
Mama Coca's Resilience: Speculative Ethnography and a Multi-Species Experiment in Andean Indigenous Kinship, American Ethnological Association Conference, May 2026 (Victoria, British Columbia)
Trauma Response & Crisis Care for Movements: The 2026 Edition, Virtual Training for Community-Based Healers, 2026 (virtual)
Rebel Hoja in Manhattan: The Unbordered Medicine & Cultural Shapeshifting of the Coca Leaf in the Urban United States, Ecological Society of America Mid-Atlantic Conference, March 2026 (Towson University, Maryland)
El Ande: A Ceremonial Approach to the Eldership & Wisdom of the Andes as Our More-Than-Human Kin, Yale Religion & Ecology Conference, February 2026 (New Haven, Connecticut)
Rebel Hoja: A Camino with the Andean Elder Mama Coca, Virtual 4-Part Workshop Series, February 2026 - REGISTER HERE.
The Altitude of Humanity: Sacred Mountains & the Harmful Lineage of the Western Mountaineer Conquest Mindset, California Institute of Integral Studies, PCC/ESR Colloquium, October 2025 (Healdsburg, California)
Writing Our Way Through It: Healing Through Creative Practice in Chaotic Times, The Kota Alliance, May 2025
Grant Writing for Community-Based Doulas in Harlem, The Kota Alliance, May 2025
Andean Futurism & Community Healing, Black Earth Festival, Naropa University, April 2024 (Boulder, Colorado)
