In just a month, I’m trading St. Louis for Lima to spend an entire year of hands-on cultural and social immersion. I’ll be working alongside the Center for the Development of Black Peruvian Women while learning what accompaniment, community, and solidarity look like in practice. This blog holds the honest version of that year: the preparation, the questions, the everyday beauty, the uncomfortable growth, and the lessons I could not have planned for. It is a place to stay conn