Julieta Casimiro

Member of the 13 Grandmothers Council

“We need to keep hope alive. It is like a never-ending story. In my village, there is violence. What is happening in my village is happening in the world. At this moment, we need our faith. We need to make that faith stronger so we can continue doing our spiritual work and continue helping others.”
—Julieta Casimiro, member of the 13 Grandmothers Council

Mazatec elder Julieta Casimiro is one of the 13 grandmothers of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a global alliance that teaches ancestral ways of prayer, education, and healing for Mother Earth, all her inhabitants, and all the children, for the next seven generations. Casimiro was born in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, Mexico, where she still makes her home and practices ceremony and healings with sacred plants in the pre-hispanic Teonanacatl, “ninos santos” tradition.