Tannia Esparza- she, her, ella | they, them, elle is a Queer Xicanx Indigenx who grew up in Chumash People’s land in santa barara, ca and is grateful to have found home in the high desert mountains in Tiwa and Tewa People's Lands in New Mexico. Tannia is proud to come from a migrant family of brave, persistent matriarchs, who have lived in the Tlayutla Valley in Central Mexico for generations. 

Tannia is a storyteller, facilitator, doula, certified healing centered coach and founder of GiraSol Descendants, a beloved community making project, offering storytelling as a practice for building the world we need and deeply desire. Tannia offers a storytelling approach to organizational vision, strategy and development, facilitation, coaching and program design.  

She has been growing alongside social justice movements for over 18 years working at the intersections of reproductive, gender and racial justice, and Queer liberation.  Tannia previously served as the Executive Director at Bold Futures (formerly Young Women United), a New Mexico based reproductive justice organization led by BIPOC, where she made room for more people to strategize, shift power and narratives to ensure people in New Mexico could continue making real decisions about our own bodies and lives. She is happy to serve as a board member at The Center for Whole Communities and The Astrea Foundation.

Tannia was shown the way of stories as a quiet, intuitive child who learned to listen and notice as safety keeping, grew to love offering and receiving stories through community based theatre and later with the teachings of Norma Wong, learned that the stories entrusted to all of us are the courage we can lean on to make the future possible in collaboration with our collective ancestors and descendants.