“You are the cumulative expression of all your ancestors.” A culturalist and historical trauma specialist, Iya Affo was drawn to the rituals of her Jewish friends and neighbors growing up. She wondered why the history of the Holocaust was widely known, but not the stories of enslavement of her Black ancestors. She sensed that connection to one’s history and to ancestral land would help communities be resilient and overcome adversity. Traveling extensively to spiritual communities and deeply immersing in her ancestral village in West Africa over three decades, Iya has relearned how to live as an indigenous woman descendant of a long line of traditional healers. Informed by studies of trauma and epigenetics, Iya's passion is to cultivate intergenerational healing by connecting intuitive ancestral practices with modern neurobiology. She hopes to facilitate reculturing and the subsequent healing of indigenous people all over the world.