We invited Charlotte Sáenz to collaborate with the Techno-Tamaladas after she joined us at the tamale making events at ECAP food bank in 2019. She has contributed her knowledges of alternative methodologies and pedagogics, and of other ways of doing and being education, justice, and health, helping us to learn and listen differently. Sáenz has worked in education/creative inquiry and scholarly research, in expanding consciousness and collective knowledge, for decades. Born and raised in the mountain-rimmed high-desert valley megapolis guarded by the Popocatepetl and Iztacci-huatl volcanoes, she now lives on the Sausal Creek watershed in xučyun, also known as Oakland.

In her native Mexico, she researches Indigenous epistemologies focusing on a Zapatista Seed Pedagogics. To better understand her work and insights, please visit/view her most recent work, Zapatista Seed Pedagogics: Beyond Rights, Creating a Decolonizing Co-education published in the International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2023, Volume 7, Issue 1.