Fireside Chat

Kelsey Wiskirchen is WARP’s Executive Director, and a textile artist, working primarily in embroidery, natural dyeing, and quilting.

Rocío Mena Gutierrez is a WARP member from Mexico City. Through her brand ZIKURI, Rocío unites her two passions: natural dyeing education and designing bags. Her purpose is to inspire by achieving beautiful colors and by making us aware of the processes involved so that we can feel the connection with the materials and the essence of things.

Judy Newland is a retired faculty in museum anthropology at Arizona State University and served as the Director for the ASU Museum of Anthropology. She has worked in the museum field for over 20 years at a variety of university museums, creating more than 100 exhibitions with the help of her students.

Deborah Chandler is one of the founding members of WARP and its current board president. Her trail has included Colorado, Peace Corps in Honduras, Houston, back to Colorado, and finally she landed in Guatemala, where for nine years she was the in-country director of Mayan Hands.