Grace Alvarez Sesma, of Yaqui/Mexican heritage, is a cultural practitioner, educator, and activist whose calling to walk the path of the Curanderismo began in childhood. Her consulting and private healing practice draws on her family’s Yaqui knowledge and from Zapotec, and Mexihca healing traditions. As a cultural educator, she works with mental health therapists and other healthcare providers to promote understanding of Mexican and Indigenous culture-specific health practices and to encourage mutually respectful collaboration.
In 1993, she was the recipient of the prestigious leadership fellowship award by the National Hispana Leadership Institute in collaboration with Harvard University&#8217;s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She contributed to the book Voices of the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices.
She serves on the Consciousness &amp; Healing Initiative (CHI) Practitioners Council, the Association of Integrative Health &amp; Medicine BIPOC committee, and the Kanap Kuahan (Tell the Truth) Coalition.

Grace Sesma