Sister Esperanza V. Principio, Maryknoll Missioner, is a member of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic that has its main location in Maryknoll, New York. Esperanza now lives in El Paso, Texas since late 2024. She is the Co-Coordinator of the Maryknoll Monarch Initiative (MMI) – a collaborative project of the Maryknoll Sisters and Maryknoll Lay Missioners. MMI offers education and training programs on Care for the Earth, Human Migration, Nonviolence and Nondiscrimination in a hybrid format, both online or in person. Sr. Esperanza, originally from the Philippines has rich and beautiful mission experiences in Latin America: Panama and Peru for a total of 19 years. Another 21 years of religious life were spent in her home country. She speaks Tagalog, Cebuano (a native language of Philipines) English, Spanish and Portuguese.