My journey began in youth, listening closely to the quiet places where pain and possibility met. Over twenty years of grassroots work in education and community spaces, I learned to recognize the inner stories that keep people small and the ones that restore coherence. This practice of tending narratives became a form of healing, personal and collective, that still guides my work.
Years of practice led me into doctoral study in Education for Social Justice, where I asked how learning can hold contradiction without erasing it. Grounded in Chi'xi, Tukuy Sunquywan, and Pachakuti, my scholarship lives between Quechua lineage and English-Irish inheritance. I now carry this in-between stance into talks, writings, and circles that invite others to inhabit their own thresholds with intention.