About Us
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isét estela (P.k.a. Kaycie López Jones)
Pronouns: she/they/ella/elle/we/us
I am the daughter of Renée López and Larry Vincent Jones; the sister to Maltise Jones, Brian Jones, and Gabriella López-Cross; and mother to Celestial Amaru Kaycie Williams. I come from a long lineage of ancestors whose wisdom, love, fear, sweat, tears, laughter, and joy are with me every breath I take.
We live in this Queered Indigenous Black Femme Multicultural and Biracial Body. While we're socially assigned these—and many more— labels, we've also been conditioned to internalize and perform them, and therefore, both intentionally and unintentionally, we also participate in embodying and reproducing them. Truly, our identity is multidimensional and shifts with context; every moment is an opportunity to embody my authentic self.
That said, we exist within a context. English is my first languate. We have a U.S. passport and were born and grew up on unceded lands of the Lenapehoking, Diné, Pueblo peoples, Nūmūnūū, Apache, Ute, Kiowa, Duwamish, Suquamish, Multnomah, and Cherokee. My ancestors were both colonized and colonizer, enslaved and enslavers. We would not exist in this form without this fraught history and context.
Largely due to this, my work focuses on U.S. and Western histories and cultures, the Indigenous, Afro and Euro diasporas, and the reintegration of land-honoring ceremonial wisdom, intentionally gro9unded ritual, and embodied practice.
We strive to facilitate spaces where individuals and groups can connect with and share the wisdom of their lived experiences, while also opening their minds to new information, perspectives, and even worldviews.
This work is inherently relational. Much of it involves reconnecting and relating—to ourselves, to one another, and to the world around us—and co-creating systems, structures, processes, and practices that honor the diverse and multifaceted nature of our collective. Our goal is for everyone to find a place within the system where they both find value and are valued.
This work also requires unlearning old habits and transforming rituals rooted in scarcity and greed into those grounded in abundance and love.
This is what we hope to inspire during our sessions together: that you and your team feel motivated to co-create a relational path forward—one that recognizes, acknowledges, honors, celebrates, and activates the connections that already exist, cultivating outcomes that are not only efficient and effective but also genuinely enjoyable.
Our approach is grounded in the belief that divisive, hierarchical, or prejudiced ways of working hinder collective potential and create unnecessary barriers to progress.
We have worked as an Intercultural Educator for the past 18 years and an Educational Equity Facilitator, Consultant, and Coach for the past 10 years. Initially, our professional focus was within the field of education (Early Education, K12 and Higher Ed) - specifically intercultural education and educational equity - and the nonprofit sector. About 7 years ago, we expanded our focus to include organizational cultures. Additionally, I am a Qualified Administrator with the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI, LLC).
Currently, we are continuing my education as a cultural somatics practitioner, which focuses on racialized and systemic intergenerational/historic trauma healing and integration. So far on this journey, we've completed the Communal Consultations for Somatic Abolitionists program with Resmaa Manakem, the Embodied Social Justice certificate program (a somatic approach to social justice work) through Transformative Change, as well as the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy certificate program through The Embody Lab. That said, my biggest teacher is, has been, and always will be my own lived experience.
We hold a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Analysis: Human Behavior from Pomona College in Claremont, CA and an inter-collegiate Master of Arts in International Development and Service with focuses in Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Education (from Concordia University - Portland, Siena Italian Studies, and University of San Francisco - Quito & Galapagos).
I look forward to working with you, holistically, wholeheartedly, and intentionally.
Con Gratitud,
Isét Estela