María Saldana

Equity Leadership Consultant

msaldana (at) nationalequityproject.org

María joined the National Equity Project in 2022. She is an Indigenous Charapa Peruana, writer and healer-facilitator. María earned her M.A. in Women’s Studies from the University of Florida and has worked with the WELLS Healing Center, Academics for Black Survival and Wellness, and the PUMAS Collective. Through sacred storytelling and embodied practice, she explores queerness and Indigeneity, particularly from the Peruvian Amazon, and perreo. She is inspired by and has learned from countless Queer and Trans women and femmes of color and is greatly influenced by Charapa culture and her upbringing in South Florida. Her heart continues to be in Iquitos, Peru where her family resides.