On September 21, 2014, Indigena was the lead organizer of a sunrise ceremony in Central Park prior the People’s Climate March, which was one of the largest global climate actions in history. The gathering was in collaboration with indigenous-led organizations, their allies, artists, and community organizers. It was a healing space for the sharing of words carried from the hearts of communities afar. And as the sun rose, it was a space to presence and remind why thousands were gathered on that day. 

Indigena created and organized the first women’s gathering with the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a global alliance of spiritual elders, medicine women and wisdom keepers from the Amazon rainforest, the Alaskan Tundra of North America, the great forest of the American northwest, the vast plains of North America, the highlands of central America, the Black Hills of South Dakota, the mountains of Oaxaca, the desert of the American southwest, the mountains of Tibet and Nepal and from the rainforest of Central Africa.

In a country with zero military presence and one of the most biodiverse places in the world, we organized a historical event of a lifetime. The Indigenous nations of Costa Rica united for the first time with international support from indigenous peoples from Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and the U.S.