Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Margaret MacSems

February 11, 2026

Join WARP for our February Fireside Chat with Margaret MacSems! During our monthly Meet a Member program, we get to know a different WARP member each month.

Margaret MacSems, originally from the West Coast of the United States, has found her niche at the intersection of small-scale farming and hand-crafted textiles. After doing field work for her master’s degree in International Agricultural Development in Oaxaca in 2006, she moved there in 2008 to work with indigenous farmers on the coast of Oaxaca on milpa soil conservation. In 2011 the work grew to include the production of native, colored cottons and co-founding Katyi Ya’a, an indigenous textile collective in San Juan, Colorado, which spins and weaves this cotton.

From 2017-2024 she was instrumental in the development of the Khadi Oaxaca textile collective in the Sierra Sur de Miahuatlan. She is also co-founder of the native cotton collective Ñu’u Ndito and is currently guiding the development of their producer’s cooperative, co-managing their GMO-free native cotton project and advising on the program for the advancement of regenerative agriculture in the region.

Margaret lives and gardens in San Sebastian Rio Hondo, Sierra Sur, Oaxaca.

Please note that if you would like to attend but are unavailable at the time listed, register anyway and you will receive a link to the recording as soon as it is available.

The video recording of this event is available to logged-in WARP members only.