Teresita J. Bazán Beltrán

Born to a Oaxacan Mixtec family in Mexico City, known in those times as the D.F. In 2004, a few months after arriving to the United States, she started to work within programs that served youth from immigrant and refugee families in the area of Seattle. Around the same time Teresita started weaving her work of organizing in community through art and cultural expressions, mostly from Oaxacan roots. Since 2009 the fandango music, also known as “música de cuerdas”, has provided the space to seed various opportunities to create, organize, and care for each other in community. In constant relationship with plants, sense of humor, dancing, and the experience of creating and reimagining.