An expatriate from the ancestral land of the Huetar people. Descendant of the few who survived and the colonizers who enslaved them, murdered them and stole their land, their culture and their name.

A transgender person who became an uninvited guest to people they never knew in a foreign and also stolen land, moving away from a culture that is hostile towards them.

A feminist, atheist, leftist and activist who has had a long and eventful life. A life that has made them question their own privilege, their politics, gender, identity and their active roles in society.

Having worked as an artist, journalist and computer scientist, they have had the opportunity to experience first-hand many human dimensions: from supporting oppressed people fighting for a place to live against global corporations, to sharing space with those privileged individuals who can’t and won’t see beyond their noses, to fighting hand-in-hand with fellow queer people for their right to exist.

These days, they work on balancing the demands of a capitalist system while dismantling patriarchal paradigms that foster exclusion and inequity and aim to keep a status quo that only benefits a handful of obscenely overpowered individuals, disregarding the extreme needs of everybody else.

— “We all struggle to survive and get hold of anything we can. My life’s goal is to build resources and spaces that do not harm us when we do.”