Karina is accompanying Shipibo Maestras Laura Lopez de Fernandez & Maestra Edelin Lopez Sanchez to Chacruna as a cultural bridge. She is the founder and executive director of The ARC a nonprofit stewarding healing justice & educational circles through community-led, earth-based care. Through The ARC and its initiatives including organizing platform Sovereign by Nature, she supports cultural exchange and regenerative systems that restore right relationship between people, land, and lineage. A long-term student of Indigenous wisdom teachers, Karina serves as a certified holistic health, transformation, and integration guide. Her work centers Living Medicine - ancestral, somatic, and land-based practices shared through reciprocity and community leadership. She focuses on expanding access to healing for marginalized communities, movement leaders and frontline activists while supporting broader systems change.

Rooted in a rich tapestry of Taíno, Afro-Caribbean, Spanish, French, and Ecuadorian lineages, Karina embodies a living convergence of traditions and histories. Her work honors the resilience of her ancestors while tending pathways of collective healing, remembrance, and liberation for future generations. https://www.sovereignxnature.com/thearc