June 2025

Published on Swamphen, a journal of cultural ecology of the University of Sydney, Australia

Keynote Essay : Indigenous Embassy

As Indigenous Peoples, our own orientation to boundaries is incompatible with oppressive constructs because, for us, borders are dynamic, semipermeable sites of relational increase. We will share this orientation from our unique experience of emergent embassy rituals between Cañari and Kara::Kichwa of the Andes::Amazon and Bama/Murri of Australia’s northeast (see Jacobs & Narváez; Yunkaporta).

2024- Present

La Fundación Biocorredores Amazónicos

Co-founded an organzaition to support connective work in the Amazon through leadership products for NGOs and governments.

Secured initial seed grant to establish operational foundation for a new organization including recruiment.

Built early people practices for a small, growing team (ways of working, onboarding, team agreements, and operating protocols).

Led partner-facing trainings focused on negotiations, collaboration, and accountability.

Intentionally anchored our work in Andean modalities, ceremony, and development as the foundation for all initiatives.

Fall 2027

Emergence Magazine V.7

“Seeds and Structures”

By Tyson Yunkaporta, Gabriela Romero, and Stephanie Beck

Emergence’s seventh print volumewill explore the role of seeds and structures in bridging the worlds and sowing a future where we embody an ontology of ecology. Central to this inquiry will be an examination of ancient and existing ways humans work with seeds and structures—spanning physical, cosmological and spiritual, and ecological knowledge systems that honor our sacred relationship with the Earth.

Embassy Collaborator | Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab

With Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta

I have engaged in building kinship networks and research practices through patient, deliberate exchange across epistemologies. Deep research and writing we have developed approaches have contributed to multiple conversations and ongoing projects with the IKSL

Gum Tree Embassy, The Other Others Podcast, on Spotify.