jazmín calderón torres is a trans-nonbinary Boricua called to tending land through their jibaro lineage. They move through a creative practice that is constantly connecting stories and scholarship across mediums—from agroecology to music to films. They are currently a Producer, Creative Strategist at Lead to Life: A People’s Alchemy for Regeneration, where they collaborate and tend to grief caused by state sanctioned violence through community, land tending, fire, gathering, ceremony, and speculative media and film making. They studied Art Practice, New Media and Ecosystems Management and Forestry at UC Berkeley. They have apprenticed to Applied Ecology, wildlife track & sign, bird language, fire tending / fire by friction, wild tending, ecosystems restoration, plant medicine, and agroecology with various teachers (Weaving Earth, Wilderness Awareness School, Ancestral Apothecary, MESA, Soul Fire Farm, Planting Justice, etc.)