I am an immigrant mestizo musician from Colombia, dedicated to building community around learning, playing, and teaching viola. The musical interactions I sustain across Abya Yala (the Americas) are not only political, but also continuously transformed by the work of my mentors, teachers, ancestors, colleagues, family, students, and friends: it is thanks to our communion that we resist in joy, listening and sounding in solidarity. My action as a performer and researcher is rooted in decolonial work. I engage with communities whose musical practices reclaim local identities and ancestral territories in Abya Yala, towards our dignified existence. Through teaching at UA, I can learn from and with my students and colleagues as we sustain local collaborations with the Q'iru Ensemble, Tucson Son Jarocho, La Peña del Surco, TUSD, and South Tucson Community Organization, as well national and international connections with Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, Bloomington Early Music Festival, and Ensamble Visionaries in Colombia.