Mi mamá y mi abuelita taught me that our riquezas come from the abundance of generosity, millennia of ancestral wisdom, and commitment to collective bienestar that we as indigenous women carry within.

As a landless Indigenous person, I carry with me a legacy of colonial pain that has been passed down to me by my mother and her mother before her and her mother before her. Still, despite centuries of violence imprinted on our DNA, I have been honored to learn about collective survival and revolutionary indigenous love from the matriarchs in my family who fought to live and thrive and carry our people forward despite the constant threat of extermination. These warrior women taught me about fearless love, about love as resistance, the ultimate weapon in destroying colonialism.

To me, Presente, this community we are creating, is about tapping into and multiplying this revolutionary indigenous love. We are here. We have our ancestors at our backs. We are worthy of this sacred love, of abundance, of beauty and safety. To show it through my heart, mind, hands, feet and soul, is how I live el amor al pueblo.