me
(she|they)
Hello!
My name is Emilia Cabeza de Baca. I am an emerging architectural professional specializing in design of spaces for community gathering and Justice, as well as Urban Design and material science. I hope to expand my portfolio of spaces for worship, play landscapes, and adaptive reuse and environmental health of historic spaces.
Primary place-making tools I use are curiosity, active listening, storytelling, teamwork, photography, and advocacy. I’m an experienced project manager, facilitator, and educator. Research and development are passions of mine, particularly in renewables and quantum materials/construction.
I love the sound of fresh snow underfoot, the smells of wet cedar and concrete, the feeling of smooshing clay and mud through my hands, movies, and unexpected animal friendships.
places that make me and my Cultural identity:
I currently live and practice in the Rocky Mountains, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest of the United States. I am made from the soil-air-water-blood shared between California, Jalisco, New Mexico, Colorado, Spain, and Germany. I would happily live and practice in outer space.
I am the product of consensual as well as forced union between Indigenous and settler people in the North American West, and thus am in the process of decolonizing my consciousness and practices while supporting others in their journeys of liberation.
I speak english and Chican@ spanglish, y necesito practicar español. I identify as Chican@/x or Xican@/x; Mestiz@/x, Latinx, Hispanic, Latin American, and American are generally applicable though limited definitions.
My 21st-century pronouns are She/they; while I embody and identify with femininity, my soul is one with all things and has no gender/all genders. My various cultural embodiments also have different definitions of gender that conflict with one another, but to quote Chaka Khan, “I’m every woman”.