Ana Iris Simón comes from a family of fairground workers, of a small town, of roots. And it is from this vantage point that she writes for major media outlets with an unsettling honesty. Author of Feria, her work and public appearances have opened a necessary debate on identity, community, and what is lost when a society only looks forward. At TheNomba, her masterclasses touch what hurts: polarization, the loss of the commons, precarity as a lived experience—rather than a mere statistic—and the question of how to speak once again from life itself rather than from the trenches.