Team Members

  • Likes continue creating opportunities for reparations towards Indigenous and BIPOC communities. Andrea currently a senior undergraduate working to obtain the Environmental Studies at Naropa University, focused on environmental and social justice on behalf of our planet. Additionally, after graduation she will have a minor in Peace Studies, and Food Justice. She is originally Indigenous from Mexico, and she has become passionate about creating social justice and equity for people. She is the Chief Executive Director, and Founder the non-profit Harvest of All First Nations (HAFN), which is focused on Indigenous-led reparations, rematriation & Earth based Decolonization for the benefit of BIPOC peoples for cultural enrichment & health equity .HAFN was able to host the first annual Corn Festival in Boulder County, focused on Land Back, Indigenous leadership and regenerative agriculture. My cultural, ceremonial and ongoing community background has helped me to offer an opportunity for generation healing for the next generations including my children. It is a great opportunity to be able to express and present more about of HAFN, so new ways of governance models within the non- profit world and societies could be modeled to help break patriarchal systems.


  • FJS Program Weaver

    Daniela María, who is originally from Quito, Ecuador, now lives on a serene homestead in rural Longmont. In her search for healing of mind, body, and soul, she found her calling and true life’s purpose in permaculture, regenerative agriculture, and biodynamic practices. With hands-on experience in farming and animal husbandry, Daniela is a passionate educator and has been teaching permaculture and biodynamics since 2019. Her commitment to the land and community is evident in her work introducing biodynamic practices at farms, homesteads and back yards and collaborating on innovative projects around the Front Range. Reverent Roots has been a passion project for Daniela which was borne from her dedication to inspiring others to reconnect with the land. With a love for writing, hiking, and herbalism, Daniela's holistic approach to life reflects her core message: "It's our responsibility to learn and empower ourselves to reconnect with the land and reclaim our sovereignty in growing food and living good lives."

  • Data entry / HAFN Media Team

    Makayla Garza is passionate about the intersectionality of land generational trauma and womb and body intergenerational trauma and how healing with the land creates a type of cosmic magic. She is sincerely zealous regarding climate, environmental, and food justice, as well as steps towards permanent agriculture and food sovereignty.

  • Web Design Consultant

    nadiegan4@gmail.com

    Nico is a Colombian industrial designer and audiovisual producer with qualities for project management, teamwork, and decision-making.

    his design education and experience, combined with passion for social projects, have equipped him with the skills and knowledge to create innovative designs that have a positive impact on people's lives.

  • Administrative Coordinator
    nora.s@hafnco.org

    Nora is a Mexican-born, Colorado resident. She is passionate about all things science, nature, social justice initiatives, and cultivated learning. Through her work and as a community member, Nora aspires to be a positive catalyst in the movement towards a healed and sustainable world for all.


  • CESC Program Coordinator

    Bachelor of Arts Social Science degree from the University of Denver 2022. Concentrated in Anthropology and Minored in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. I am 1 of 5 Indigenous students to graduate in my year.

    Current Roles:

    - Indigenous Affairs Strategist at GlobalMindED. A national nonprofit that closes the equity gap by creating a diverse talent pipeline connecting students to role models, mentors, internships, and jobs. I conduct programming outreach to tribal colleges, organizations, and enterprises throughout Turtle Island.

    - Vice President of Outreach at Young Professional Inclusive Leadership Council-GlobalMindED. I network to bring more inclusive leaders to our organization. We host workshops and share skills with upcoming changemakers.

    - Ethnographer at Living Heritage Anthropology. A Tribal Consulting firm specializing in historic and cultural land management. I record, analyze, and conduct archival research within tribal consultation work.

    - President of Heska Makoce Tyospiye Native American Church of Colorado. Creating access to Indigenous prayer and healing for Native people. Life long member of the Peyote way of life: Love, Faith, Hope, and Charity.

    -Owner and Craftsman of ShashBito Designs Co. Work hard so our Native people can look good. Specializing in precious stones, shells, metals, and beadwork.

    -I will be taking on another role for Harvest of all First Nations as an Indigenous Relations Consultant for their Cultural Education Systems for Change Program. An Anthropologist with an Indigenous Worldview who is working to rewrite Indigenous narratives told by western perspectives, actively challenging settler power structures.

  • SARLP Admin

    Stephanie Hempel is a food justice activist, writer, artist, and event planner who is passionate about equity and sustainability ethics. Her enthusiasm for creativity is sustained by organizations like HAFN, which allow her to work spaciously alongside organizers who are sculpting the world into a more harmonious collective future.

    She graduated from Naropa University in 2020 with her MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, where she taught undergraduate students. Her work has taken her into the realms of public health, food systems, caretaking, operations management, marketing, design, teaching, public speaking, and content writing.

    She is the Co-Founder of the magazine Tiny Spoon Lit Mag, which features experimental art and writing. She is a member of Wisdom Body Collective: a collective that celebrates the sacred feminine energy that lives within us all. WBC is also a small, independent press in Boulder that publishes anthologies and chapbooks.

    In 2023, she was awarded a City of Boulder Arts and Culture grant for Experiments in Public Art to support her project Shine On: A Creative Approach to Food Justice. Shine On works to combat food waste and stigma about free grocery programs by offering a unique farmers market-style pop-up with artistic and cultural programming. The market will launch in the summer of 2023.

  • Media and Communications Coordinator

    Akalei Brown is a passionate advocate for foster youth, indigenous civil rights and victim advocacy.

    She holds two bachelors degrees from UC Davis in Community and Regional Development and Native American Studies.

    Her expertise in non-profit development, management and strategic planning has bolstered her career in consulting.

Our Consultants

  • Hafn Indigenous Relations Consultant

    Is a first-generation Chicana, daughter of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants. Aracely believes deeply that there is great healing and decolonization needed for the land and the people. For this reason, Aracely's work centers Environmental Justice, reproductive justice and the healing of her community, the Mother Earth, all the generations that have come before and those that will come after. Aracely holds a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health from Emory University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science from Colorado College. Aracely loves learning about herbal medicine, birth work and regenerative agricultural practices. Her heart is truly in this work to heal community and protect Mother Earth and all of her children.

    Aracely will always welcome you with an open heart and a ready ear!

  • SARL Program Consultant


    Spent a decade-long career as an educator in K-12 public schools teaching and leading for equity. She now trains future teachers as a professor at Regis University and leads justice, equity, and inclusion workshops for businesses, nonprofits, and schools. She uses her skill in teaching to make it possible for workshop participants to turn knowledge into practice and integrates mindfulness practices to sustain the inner work necessary to contribute to systemic change.

  • Indigenous Relations Consultant, FJS Program Participant

    Beverly Castaneda is a practitioner of many healing modalities. She works with multiple Ancestral tools to provide healing for herself and others.

    Over the past 12 years, she has walked in a Sacred way, which has helped her to recover from addiction and has brought healing to her mental, physical, emotional and spiritual bodies.

    Beverly has Ancestral roots in the Ute, Diné, and Tibetan Cranial Medicine. As an Indigenous descendant of the original tribes of Boulder and Denver area, she serves her community as a Board of Directors, and Indigenous Relations Consultant internally and externally for Harvest of All First Nations.

    Her mission is to bring reciprocity to the ancestors of the land by sharing intuitive messages, healing, balance, and forgiveness as we honor Mother Earth and the Cosmo's.

    She is committed to passing down Indigenous Knowledge and Sacred Teachings. She has been learning and walking the path of the Aztec Traditions for 5 years, under the guidance of Yoloteotl Chalchihuitl and has received the sacred fire accordingly.

    She is also an initiate of Oxalju Ochoch Tz’ikin – The House of the 13 Eagles – School of Maya Cosmology & Cosmic Investigation, taught by Maya Spiritual Guide/Priest Nataline R. Cruz, recognized and supported by the Elder Don Miguel Angel Chiquin Yat & La Asociación de Pueblos Mayas para el Desarollo y la Productividad “Manuel TOT” (Asomiya).

    Beverly's personal mission is to continue to help bring healing and awareness to herself, her family, her Ancestors and her community. Her grand mission is to bring healing to Mother Earth and all her inhabitants, and to help Humanity to remember the connection they once had with nature, the natural order of co-existing and to return balance to both the planet and Humanity.


  • Consultant for CESJ Program

    Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish is an ecotopian dreamer preoccupied with ancestors, art, environmental justice, and Earth (re)becoming a paradise. She’s a student and teacher of permaculture and ecological design and founded FLOWS, Candelas Glows, and the Once and Future Green. She has served as a US delegate for the Colorado River in San Luis del Rio Colorado, Mexico.

    Michelle facilitates and consults for frontline communities as well as institutions to forward community-driven solutions with transformative anti-oppression and ecological design tools through the OnceAndFutureGreen.com. She is a poet, currently featured in the “Indigenous Futurist Dreamscapes Lounge” at Meow Wolf Denver, is a wife, and mother of three.

  • Grant and Fundraising Consultant

    Lupe Amate is a Xicana/x based in Austin, TX, where she has been grateful to find a community to support their prayer to break cycles of intergenerational violence. Their Abuela was a proud Tejana, and Lupe is working to reclaim those roots. Lupe has an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in Public Policy and is pursuing her PhD in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark, researching immigration detention and local government finances. She has over a decade of experience in non-profit, government, teaching, and direct social services. Most recently they worked as a Program Officer for The Fund for New Jersey, a state-based public policy focused foundation. They find joy being in nature, biking, cooking, and dancing.


  • CESC Consultant and Advisory Council Member of the Mohawk Nation