Roxana Pardo Garcia aka La Roxay is a self-identifying Hood Intellectual Xingona and cultural worker who was born and raised on occupied Coast Salish Territory (Burien). Roxana is the Certified Xingona, Founder, and Cultural Worker of a small business, La Roxay Productions. She is also the Co-Founder, Architect, Visionary and Executive Director of Alimentando al Pueblo, a nonprofit that received the 2022 MOHAI Everyday Hero Award and a 2024 Champions of Change beneficiary. She is a graduate of Highline High School, the University of Washington, and forever a student of these streets, life, and her Ancestors. She was named 2016 Entre Hermanos Activist of the Year, 2020 Seattle Times Local Heroes, 2021 Burien Citizen of the Year, Seattle Kraken Hero of the Deep in 2023, received the 2024 King County District 8 MLK Medal of distinguished service and the 2024 Excellence in Leadership from Entre Hermanos. Her work and passion have been featured on Komo 4, Kiro 7, South Side Emerald, Univision Seattle, The Seattle Times, amongst other publications and media outlets. She will be self-publishing a book, “Grief is a Ritual” in 2025.
