Laura Yohualtlahuiz Rios-Ramirez

Laura Yohualtlahuiz Rios-Ramirez

laura.k.rios@gmail.com

Website: https://www.decorazoncircles.com

Blog URL: https://www.folklifeparnetwork.org/news/ground-zero-fertile-ground-for-liberated-amp-sovereign-future-through-folklife-amp-participatory-action-research

   443 E Vestal Pl, San Antonio, TX, 78221

Laura Yohualtlahuiz Rios-Ramirez is a Mexican-born Xicana scholar-practitioner of indigenous descent trained in educational pedagogy, circle keeping, performance art, and community organizing.  They are recognized for their canon of healing-informed praxis intersecting performance art, ancestral knowledge systems and restorative/transformative justice practices as tools for personal & collective transformation. She holds a BA in International Relations Latin American Studies, a MS in Organizational Leadership & is currently a MAS Professor at UTSA. She's participated as Southwest Folklife Fellow focusing on Participatory Action Research & an Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow focusing on interculturality in arts & culture. She co-leads, Kalpulli Ayolopaktzin, a transnational inter-tribal group of families preserving Anahuaka teachings and was active in the Wind & Warrior Sacred Waters Pilgrimage to heal colonial trauma through ritual solidarity across Black Indigenous diaspora.  She is a veteran Bgirl/Hip Hop dancer, a wife, and most importantly a Mami passionate about healing intergenerational/colonial trauma through matriarchal leadership and resiliency. Laura is a Co-Founder and Visionary behind De Corazón Circles, a consulting and capacity building firm that envisions a safe and equitable world where restorative interactions transform individuals, relationships, communities and systems through the prevention, repair and deep healing of harm.

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