Yndiana is a non-traditional student from Caracas, Venezuela. Curious by nature and a journalist by profession, she was a natural fit in the M.A. program in Appalachian Studies. Her studies have put her in touch with some of the most accomplished musicians in the region.

Yndiana is currently working on a documentary about a bluegrass musician named Joe Troop, who was inspired to learn the banjo when he heard Doc Watson play at a restaurant in Deep Gap nearly thirty years ago at the age of fourteen.
She enjoys a much quieter life in the Appalachian Mountains, and embraces sustainable living, sustainable development, sustainable tourism, and engaging with food security campaigns, community based research, climate change activism, jazz and folk festivals in the state, and a healthy life style.