Shanika - ecovillage builder, Naked and Afraid Survivor, and Spiritual Mentor Shanika Malcolm is a Jamaican-born community builder, spiritual teacher, facilitator, survivalist, and founder of Motherful Colombia, a grassroots initiative exploring new ways of living, relating, and creating community rooted in regeneration, mutual care, and collective liberation. She is also a Naked and Afraid survivalist, having completed Discovery Channel’s 21-day survival challenge in the jungles of Chiapas, Mexico. Her work weaves together more than 15 years of experience in meditation, yoga, somatic and spiritual practice, permaculture, personal development, and intentional community building. Based in Colombia, Shanika is currently developing Casa Motherful as a living laboratory for women-centered community, regenerative livelihoods, healing, education, and co-creation, while working toward a larger vision of ecovillage development. At the heart of her work is the belief that creating a new world requires us not only to build new systems, but to become the people capable of embodying and sustaining them.