Researchers

Bloom Sánchez (Shiewhibak/Isleta Pueblo, Kha’p’oe Ówîngeh/Santa Clara Pueblo, Tamaya/Santa Ana Pueblo, & Mēxihcātl/Mexica; they/them) is a 24-year-old queer disabled community organizer, currently residing on the historic homelands of O’odham and Piipaash peoples and their ancestors in Tempe, Arizona, where they earned degrees in Ecosystems Sustainability (B.S.), Sociocultural Anthropology (B.A.), and Biomimicry (Undergraduate Certificate) in 2022. Bloom’s work spans across the cordillera, temperate deserts and sierras, semiarid highlands and prairies, and other ecoregions in the North American Southwest, and includes stewarding urban and pueblo community gardens, running free workshops on food sovereignty and sustainable edible plant cultivation in small, arid, or indoor spaces, grant-writing, community surveying, organizing fundraising events for local and global justice projects, intergenerational seed-saving, and offering traditional dance with their Danza Mexica group as a form of reciprocal education, prayer, and protest for the sacred protection of all lands, water, and beings.