Mariko (she/they) is a queer, mixed race, second-generation diasporic Indigenous Ryukyuan (Okinawan) American who is currently reclaiming the practice of Hajichi, the Indigenous handpoke tradition of her people. 
 

Mariko is an interspiritual lover and defender of the Earth, practitioner of magic and wild prayer, advocate for Indigenous rights, ancestor worshiper, and animist. She loves creating and holding sacred space, practicing ritual and divination, facilitating rites of passage, and walks a balance between the modern/digital world and the wild wisdom of our ancestors. 

She is an executive assistant at the Rainforest Action Network. Outside of her day-to-day work, Mariko is the co-founder of the Ichariba Choodee Okinawan Voices & Stories podcast, co-vice president of the Okinawa American Association of New York (OAANY), a Hajichaa and ritual handpoke tattooist, organizer of the Shimanchu Tarot Project, co-editor of the Druidical journal, assists the Green Mountain Druid Order community (and graduate of the Green Mountain School of Druidry, Heartfire Clan 2019), and assists the Order of the Sacred Earth virtual community.