Martha Winona Travers, Ph.D., is a writer, teacher, and Mama Iachak who apprenticed with Ecuadorian Kichwa elder Taita Alberto Taxo for 22 years, including 10 years visiting the Indigenous Kichwa in the Andes. She holds a doctorate in English literature from the University of Michigan where she teaches contemplative practices as well as teaching at the GilChrist Retreat Center and at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park. The author of The WayCard Oracle, she lives in Manchester, Michigan.