June 2025

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

Keynote Essay : Indigenous Embassy

As Indigenous Peoples, we are afflicted in modernity by the barriers and borders of transgressive cultures and imperial bullies. Our own orientation to boundaries is incompatible with these 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).

Embassy Collaborator | Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab

With Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta

I have engaged in building kinship networks and ceremonial practices that have led to lateral thinking and collaborative writing. Through patient, deliberate exchange across epistemologies, we have developed approaches that honor multiple ways of wisdom paths and questions modern thought.

It has been an honor to contribute to multiple conversations and ongoing projects with the IKSL

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

2023- Present

La Fundación Biocorredores Amazónicos

I co-led the establishment of la Fundación Biocorredores Amazonicos (BioAm) in Ecuador, successfully securing legal status in 2023.

After securing our initial seed funding a united a diverse board of directors comprising of Indigenous leaders and urban professionals came to from the board of directors.

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

Spring 2026

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 spiritual 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.