Born in Oga’Pogeh (Santa Fe), New Mexico, and grown in the village of Po’Wo’Geh Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo). I have been a dancer since I could walk, my passion sparking on the dirt floors of the Kiva. When Moving Arts Espanola first started, in 2008, I took numerous dance and movement classes. Ballet was the style that stuck, and shaped my being as I grew.

In 4th grade I transferred to Los Alamos and began dancing with Dance Arts Los Alamos. In 2016 I was accepted into New Mexico School for the Arts for high school. From 2016-2019 I learned, travelled, and trained. From one summer to the next I trained in Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Chicago attending summer intensives and dancing extensively for five to eight weeks in each place. I graduated from NMSA in 2019, a year earlier than my peers, to train pre-professionally in Illinois at Ballet Chicago. I stayed for nine months until the world shut down for Covid in the early spring of 2020.

During the lockdown I attended university in my room. I received the Davis New Mexico Scholarship in my final year of NMSA and was accepted to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. I had deferred my first year to train in Chicago. The following 2020 school year was when I began. It was difficult, lonely and confusing. Like learning a foreign language that grew in complexity when I arrived on campus the following fall of 2021. As a rez kid any city I travelled to was a culture shock, but Los Angeles was a culture shock down to the bones. The stars glitter on the ground instead of the sky. I navigated tokenism while searching for community. I fought to stay afloat in my studies. I traveled to Panama to work with orphanages. I studied in Palestine and witnessed the erasure of their indigeneity. I graduated in 2024 with a BA in Dance and a torn meniscus in my right knee.

I have since returned back to Santa Fe (Oga’Pogeh) and San Ildefonso (Po’Wo’Geh Owingeh) where I continue to heal, dance, and now teach. I am a dance teacher to an array of youth at Moving Arts Espanola and Nambe Pueblo. I work with them to introduce them to dance and give them the outlet and safe space that I experienced in my youth. In 2027 I will be the first Indigenous woman to overtake the role of the Fire Spirit for the Zozobra Celebration.