Tannia Esparza-she, ella/they, elle- is a Queer Xicanx, raised by a migrant family of brave, persistent matriarchs in Chumash Peoples ocean waters in santa barbara california. She is grateful to have found home in the high desert mountains of the Tiwa People, in corrales, new mexico.

Tannia is a storyteller and founder of GiraSol Descendants, a beloved community making project, offering storytelling as a practice for building the world we need and deeply desire. GiraSol Descendants, offers a storytelling approach to beloved community building, program design, facilitation, vision and strategy alignment, coaching support, habit mapping, and practices that support joyously manifesting deeply grounded visions, to individual people, small businesses, and groups across social justice movements. They are a proud fellow and board member of The Center For Whole Communities. To their immediate community, Tannia loves offering embodied, spirit, and heart centered support as a prenatal, birth, and post-birth doula.

She has been growing alongside social justice movements for over 17 years working at the intersections of reproductive, gender and racial justice, and Queer liberation. In 2018, Tannia completed a six year tenure as the Executive Director at Bold Futures (formerly Young Women United), a New Mexico based reproductive justice organization led by women of color. Tannia is a long distance runner who offers her practice to the water and the mountains. She is currently doing her best to move courageously toward her sacred purpose.