Susana Valadez
Anthropologist, author and founder of The Huichol Center for Cultural Survival in Huejuquilla el Alto, Jalisco, Mexico.
From Beads to Seeds at the Huichol Center
40-year-old institution confronts pandemic, economic downturn with permaculture and ingenuity
Last year’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination seemed like the moment Susana Valadez had worked for her whole life. The founder of the Huichol Center for Cultural Survival had spent the past four decades weaving together with painstaking care the components of an organization that provided the Wixárika people with culturally relevant employment and training, a […]