Edizon Cumes

Edizon Cumes is an educator, researcher, and founder of Proyecto Parutz', a collective initiative rooted in the defense and revitalization of Indigenous knowledge systems through food, land, and communal life. Rooted in the technologies of the milpa and communal kitchens, his work treats these spaces as political and pedagogical terrains for sustaining life and resistance in Indigenous communities. Cumes' research explores how ancestral knowledge systems—embedded in agriculture, land stewardship, and food preparation—challenge colonial and extractivist paradigms. His practice interweaves storytelling, critical pedagogy, and embodied knowledge to strengthen communal forms of learning and autonomy.