My Haitian and North American Ancestry and studies with Elders from Haiti, Brazil, India, Mexico, Europe, Ireland, South America and the United States allowed me to essentialize wisdom from a broad family of cultures while grounded in my own.  In 2016, I was asked by to be of service to Earth through the Elders of Gonawindua (The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia). I’ve been helping the ethnic groups of Gonawindua ever since, to protect The Heart of the World, the land they steward, to support them in pagamento, the work they exist to do, to help them archive and give them the means to share their sacred knowledge, and to help their communities re-build and re-balance as changes in the ecosystems and Western encroachment on the land they call home calls for new solutions for survival. I’ve come to know the mamos and zagas (male and female spiritual leaders) of Gonawindua as highly skilled healers and am honored to work with them. I founded Teyuna Foundation in 2018 to further assist this mission and plan to expand the mission to include First Peoples from North and Central America as well as Earth Stewards worldwide. I believe we are not separate from nature; we are the natural world. We must care for Mother Earth as if she was our birth mother, because she is. We must uphold unconditional love as our highest value. I believe it’s critical to weave our many cultures into a common thread of connection and to do that, we must fully heal within and realize there is no other. I believe the distinctive combination of insight, vision, and acceptance that empowers people to discover themselves comes through a connection to Creation through Earth.