JESSIE DUKE (she/her)

A ceremonialist & entrepreneur dedicated to fostering connection & openness that enables people to uniquely contribute what is theirs to the world.  As the founder of "Bendichas Manos" (‘blessed hands’ in Ladino), a ceremonial cacao company, Jessie partners with Mayan women's collective Ruk’u’x’Ulew to encourage the recognition of the power our hands, as extensions of our hearts, to shape our lives. Motivated by her own continual journey of sickness, healing, contraction, & expansion, Bendichas Manos advocates for incorporating a simple cacao ritual that offers a daily moment to slow down, ground, center, and listen, to enhance the capacity for deeper relationships with oneself, loved ones, ancestors, communities, and the natural world.