Edyka Chilomé is a queer child of migrant activists from the occupied lands of the Zacateco (Mexico) as well as Lenca (El Salvador) people and was raised in migrant justice movements grounded in the tradition of spiritual activism. Edyka is a cultural worker, futurist, and community weaver 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 Women's University with an emphasis on Women of Color theory and Indigenous epistemologies.
She is the designer of Castia 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). “Yo soy La Memoria Viviente / I Am The Living Archive” premiered at the 2020 national gathering of the southern-based arts activist organization Alternate Roots.
Praised for her authentic and powerful voice and vision Edyka has been featured and asked to share her work on 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 back yards, kitchen tables, and street corners from protests to 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 LA based organization Justice For My Sister, and an inaugural recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Uprise Grant.
She and her dog companion Nani are currently invited guests in Lumbee territory (occupied coastal plains in North Carolina) learning from/with elders (human and non human) and is serving as a partner in the Constellations Design Lab, an initiative of the Center For Cultural Power.
She is the designer of Castia 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). “Yo soy La Memoria Viviente / I Am The Living Archive” premiered at the 2020 national gathering of the southern-based arts activist organization Alternate Roots.
Praised for her authentic and powerful voice and vision Edyka has been featured and asked to share her work on 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 back yards, kitchen tables, and street corners from protests to 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 LA based organization Justice For My Sister, and an inaugural recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Uprise Grant.
She and her dog companion Nani are currently invited guests in Lumbee territory (occupied coastal plains in North Carolina) learning from/with elders (human and non human) and is serving as a partner in the Constellations Design Lab, an initiative of the Center For Cultural Power.