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Nathalie Kelley Mallqui

Beauty as a Blueprint

Beauty as a Blueprint

What if beauty isn’t something to chase, optimize, or consume but something we remember? In this inspiring talk, Beauty as a Blueprint, Nathalie Kelley Mallqui invites us to explore beauty as a living intelligence rather than an aesthetic ideal.

Drawing on Quechua cosmology, ancestral ecological knowledge, and her own journey between Hollywood and the land, she gently unravels the version of beauty we’ve been taught, and opens a doorway back to what is real.

This is an invitation to reclaim beauty as connection, as resistance, and as a way of being in right relationship with life. A remembering of something ancient, rooted, and deeply human.

About

Nathalie Kelley Mallqui is an actress of Quechua descent and an advocate for indigenous knowledge systems. Through her work, she bridges storytelling, ecology, and ancestral wisdom, using her platform to support a more rooted and relational way of living. She is a board member of the Fungi Foundation and collaborates with indigenous communities and knowledge keepers to share and preserve traditional ecological knowledge.