Shayai Lucero

Pueblo of Acoma/Pueblo of Laguna

Shayai Lucero was born and raised on the reservations of the Pueblos of Acoma and Laguna in New Mexico, USA. She is of the Roadrunner clan for her mother and a Turkey Child for her late father. In 2008, Shayai graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a minor in chemistry. Shayai is a knowledge keeper of the traditional Pueblo healing methods. She began studying Pueblo traditional medicinal plants when she was 13 years old from her elders and relatives. She remains active in her community in the promotion of STEM and Woman/Native American Entrepreneurship and as an ally of the LGBTIQ2S Community. Shayai is an entrepreneur of over 16 years where she is the Matriarch and an international award winning floral designer at Earth & Sky Floral Designs and Gallery.

Shayai Lucero lives at the Pueblo of Laguna with her husband/partner Aaron Fry (Cherokee/Chickasaw) and their two children Kaweshchima and Maityaitsa. Her family lives next door to her childhood home where her mother Cecelia, brother Haitsi and her late father Stanley reside. Aaron and Shayai are raising their family in the Pueblo plazas and powwow circles.