Our co-founder is a Mexican social anthropologist born not far from the Wirikuta desert. Early on, her work centered on supporting people harmed by abuse and on prevention in communities where addiction and violence leave deep marks. By 21, she had founded her first organization focused on sexuality, addiction, and violence prevention. Since then, she has helped many people access care, protection, and a path toward healing, and has contributed to national conversations on public safety and prevention.

Rather than advocacy alone, her lens is relational and restorative: bodies carry history; communities do, too. In her own healing, she returned to her origins, to her ancestors, and to the ancient medicines Indigenous peoples have used to tend to body, soul, and community. That return together with training in anthropology and long experience in addiction and trauma work now grounds her presence with us. A melting-pot self scholar, practitioner, daughter of this land she is one of the founding pillars of Affinity Novandi, keeping our treatments rooted in place and culture, carefully held, and oriented toward real change.

OUR ANTHROPOLIGIST FOUNDER