Margarita Acosta is the Director of the Indigenous Montessori Institute (IMI), where she supports a growing movement of Indigenous-led education rooted in language, land, and Liberation. Of multiracial ancestry from White European U.S. settlers and the Salvadoran/Nahuat diaspora, she grew up between El Salvador and the Washington, D.C. area, later spending 15 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and now residing in the ancestral homelands of the Isleta and Sandia Pueblo peoples in Albuquerque, NM, . She holds a B.A. in Linguistics and an M.Ed. with a focus on Transformative Bilingual Education and brings over 17 years of experience as a bilingual classroom teacher, Lower Elementary Montessori guide, somatic and educational leadership coach, and facilitator of multiracial healing spaces for educators. Her work is grounded in honoring her family’s story of survival and resilience since the 1932 anti-Indigenous genocide in El Salvador, and in building a future where Indigenous children can grow up speaking their languages, connected to land and deeply rooted in their cultural identities.