My artistic and community-based social practice sometimes overlaps with research, consulting, and advisory work in special archives and collections. I am passionate about reconnecting Lenca ancestral heritage to living heirs and working with museums on systemic issues to give a better context to Lenca Archaic and misfit Mesoamerican collections.

I am thrilled to have been able to connect Maya Lenca Nation with the collection and journals of Samuel K. Lothrop  from 1924-26 in Central America housed at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian with an archive of over 7,000 objects!

Relevant Roles

• Cultural Extension Officer, Maya-Lenca Nation cultural commission. 
• Co-chair, Indigenous Round Table, Science Museum of Minnesota. 
  
• Community Curator, Science Museum of Minnesota.
  
• Board member, Maya Society of Minnesota.
  

Lectures
2024, Co-Presenter Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, ATALM Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums national conference, A Home Away from Home: the Lenca Heritage Collection at the NMAI, Palm Springs, CA. 

2023 Co-Presenter with Dr. Roxanne Gould, Rematriating Indigenous Studies, Maya Society of Minnesota, Fall Lecture Series, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN.

2022, Co-Presenter with Science Museum of Minnesota, ATALM Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums national conference, Decolonization, Deaccessions, & Dark Markets: When NAGPRA (& Sorry) Aren't Enough,Temecula, CA. 

Please connect with me at [email protected] or on Local Contexts  localcontexts.org.