Yuria Celidwen is an Indigenous scholar of Nahua and Maya lineages from Chiapas, Mexico. She holds a Ph.D. and serves as a senior fellow at the Othering & Belonging Institute and co-chair of the Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit of the American Academy of Religion. Her research focuses on Indigenous forms of contemplation and their relationship to prosocial behavior, ethics, and ecological belonging. She has published on Indigenous spiritual traditions, collective well-being, kin relationality, and the application of Indigenous medical ethics to psychedelic research.