Edyka Chilomé is a queer child of migrant activists from the occupied lands of the Zacateco (Mexico) as well as Lenca (El Salvador) peoples and was raised in migrant justice movements grounded in the tradition of spiritual activism. Edyka is a cultural worker, futurist, and land steward who holds a B.A. in social and political philosophy with an emphasis on social justice from Loyola University Chicago and an M.A. in Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies from Texas Woman's University with an emphasis on Women of Color theory and Indigenous epistemologies.
Edyka is the designer of Casita Chilomé and the author of two collections of poetry, She Speaks | Poetry (2015) and El Poemario del Colibrí / The Hummingbird Poems (2019). In 2019, she co-directed and wrote her first short film, Para Ti Mi Pueblo. In 2020, she produced and directed Yo soy La Memoria Viviente / I Am The Living Archive, a multilingual short based on an Indigenous futurist play she co-wrote titled Where Earth Meets The Sky (produced by Cara Mia Theatre in 2018).
Praised for her authentic and powerful voice and vision, Edyka has been featured and invited to share her work across multiple media platforms and in spaces around the country and Latin America, including TEDx, NPR, The Huffington Post, GLAAD, The Tucson Poetry Festival, Google, Prindle Institute for Ethics, The Lincoln Center in New York, The Dallas Museum of Art, Remezcla, Fierce by Mitú, Palabritas at Harvard University, The American Family Therapy Academy, UPenn, The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, The Texas Democratic Convention, her homegirls’ backyards, kitchen tables, detention centers, street corners, protests, and city halls.
Edyka was a 2018 Macondo Writers Workshop participant, a 2018-2019 Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) fellow, a 2020 VONA Voices participant, an inaugural fellow in the 2020 Black, Indigenous, People of Color Screenwriting Lab created by the LA-based organization Justice For My Sister, an inaugural recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Uprise Grant, and an Artist Disruptor in the 2023 Constellation Narrative Design Lab at The Center for Cultural Power.
For over a decade, her work has bridged ancestral knowledge, storytelling, and community organizing to support movements across Abya Yala committed to healing relationships with land and each other. As her practice has evolved, Edyka has transitioned from a primarily arts-centered path toward a land-based, place-based approach - one that understands creativity as a tool for ecological regeneration, community resilience, and cultural continuity.
Currently Edyka serves as a founding council member and land justice strategist for an 80-acre land transition project stewarded by Black and Indigenous migrant leaders in the so called u.s. South. Edyka is dedicated to centering BIPOC imagination, political education, and building cooperative systems that honor land, culture, and collective liberation.
Edyka is the designer of Casita Chilomé and the author of two collections of poetry, She Speaks | Poetry (2015) and El Poemario del Colibrí / The Hummingbird Poems (2019). In 2019, she co-directed and wrote her first short film, Para Ti Mi Pueblo. In 2020, she produced and directed Yo soy La Memoria Viviente / I Am The Living Archive, a multilingual short based on an Indigenous futurist play she co-wrote titled Where Earth Meets The Sky (produced by Cara Mia Theatre in 2018).
Praised for her authentic and powerful voice and vision, Edyka has been featured and invited to share her work across multiple media platforms and in spaces around the country and Latin America, including TEDx, NPR, The Huffington Post, GLAAD, The Tucson Poetry Festival, Google, Prindle Institute for Ethics, The Lincoln Center in New York, The Dallas Museum of Art, Remezcla, Fierce by Mitú, Palabritas at Harvard University, The American Family Therapy Academy, UPenn, The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, The Texas Democratic Convention, her homegirls’ backyards, kitchen tables, detention centers, street corners, protests, and city halls.
Edyka was a 2018 Macondo Writers Workshop participant, a 2018-2019 Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) fellow, a 2020 VONA Voices participant, an inaugural fellow in the 2020 Black, Indigenous, People of Color Screenwriting Lab created by the LA-based organization Justice For My Sister, an inaugural recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Uprise Grant, and an Artist Disruptor in the 2023 Constellation Narrative Design Lab at The Center for Cultural Power.
For over a decade, her work has bridged ancestral knowledge, storytelling, and community organizing to support movements across Abya Yala committed to healing relationships with land and each other. As her practice has evolved, Edyka has transitioned from a primarily arts-centered path toward a land-based, place-based approach - one that understands creativity as a tool for ecological regeneration, community resilience, and cultural continuity.
Currently Edyka serves as a founding council member and land justice strategist for an 80-acre land transition project stewarded by Black and Indigenous migrant leaders in the so called u.s. South. Edyka is dedicated to centering BIPOC imagination, political education, and building cooperative systems that honor land, culture, and collective liberation.
