Biographies | Inside The Husk Food

co- founders

Mimi Lucero. kichwa.

Kichwa seed keeper from San Cristóbal, Galápagos, Ecuador. Collaborates on seed house protocols, blending Western and Traditional training to refine ancestral strategies for improved conservation outcomes within cultural contexts. Mimi is finalizing a master's in biology at Miami University. Recent research examines seed bank staff interactions with seed collections and its impact on long-term conservation and reintroduction efforts.

Chuli Mesh, Yucatec Maya,

hails from a community deeply rooted in traditional sustenance farming. Raised in an off-grid household relying on solar energy and rain collection, her family produces 75% of their consumed food. carries a Bachelor's in Natural Resource Management at the University of Belize, Chuli, aims to serve her community through agroforestry, agrobiodiversity, and traditional medicine. She co-founded Inside the Husk Foodways and manages oxmul, a mayan owned coffee company dedicated to reviving ancestral teachings on just food and community.

As we walk this journey, we do so together. Accompanied by the stories of thousands. Under the embrace of our ancestors and territories. The work we do comes from the complexities of our humanities. The community roles our families have sustained through time. And the love that kept the women in our families alive, birthing through land. The joy of living close to land and the hardships of living close to the land. We share what is most sacred to us, the social tissue of our communities. Our land, and our families.