Kimberly Ariella Dueñas is a founding member of Jewtina y Co. where she currently serves as director of learning, overseeing culturally responsive programming focused on community, identity, leadership, and well-being. As a certified yoga teacher, she integrates wellness practices into her work as an access point for healing, growth, and empowerment within the Latin-Jewish community. Kimberly Ariella was born into a multiracial home and has traced the roots of her dynamic Jewish identity to rural El Salvador, Spain, and across Europe. She celebrates her family’s generational practice of farming and baking, which has inspired her heart-led, earth-informed approach to guiding others in developing deeper connections to their multicultural identities. Kimberly Ariella is a Pedagogies of Wellbeing Fellow (2022) at M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education and an alum of its Senior Educators Cohort (2017). She was also a fellow of the JDC Entwine Jewish Service Corps and Bend the Arc’s Selah Leadership Program, as well as a member of the Schusterman Foundation’s ROI Community. Based in Venice, California, she earned her B.A. from American Jewish University.