ROLE MODELS
A beautiful woman is more than a pretty face...
In honor of our young women out there, the "ROLE MODELS" section features the inspiring lives behind the faces of MamaWisdom1 Collection's models. Representing diversity, culture, and positive action, these are women who are moving the world by what they do in their everyday lives.
With that, it is an honor that the first ROLE MODEL HIGHLIGHT introduces the incredible resilience and talent of two sisters who immigrated to the U.S. from Honduras, Central America in the 1990's, fleeing from a reality of extreme corruption, violence, and poverty. One becoming a professor, and the other an artist, Oriel and Alicia Maria Siu are two women committed to offering up their life's work to the self-determination and pursuit of basic human rights for their People.
ROLE MODEL HIGHLIGHT: ORIEL MARIA SIU Phd
Mother, Profesora of Latina/o Studies, Kizomba Dance Instructor
Oriel MarÃa Siu is from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Having grown up in an economically devastated region (by the 1990s Honduras had already been entirely sold to U.S. and foreign corporate intere$t$), at the age of 16, Oriel –like millions of other Central Americans– had no other option than to migrate to el norte...
ROLE MODEL HIGHLIGHT: ALICIA MARIA SIU
Mother, Indigenous Artist and Storyteller (Nahuat-Pipil/Maya)
Alicia Maria Siu is Nahuat-Pipil/Maya on her mother's side, from Siwatewakan, El Salvador. Her father is of Cantonese origins born in Bluefield's Nicaragua. Alicia was born in El Progreso Yoro and San Pedro Sula, Honduras. At the age of 15, she and her family migrated north to Turtle Island, California in 1998. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art and a Masters in Native American Studies.