Amy Córdova Boone began her professional art career in the late 1980s with representation by Elaine Horwich, and her historic Santa Fe gallery. As well as exhibiting vibrant, colorful works of art rooted in the interconnectedness of humans and the world we share, Córdova Boone has served as an arts educator and place-based curriculum designer for more than thirty years. Córdova Boone has actively participated as an “artist in residence” in schools, libraries, and universities throughout the U.S. She is honored to have conducted art and creativity workshops for the University of Minnesota and the University of Nebraska Roots Program, where she shared hands-on art and heart workshops with many inspiring Indigenous educators. Córdova Boone has shared her many-colored vision throughout the United States for the NEA Big Read Program and spoke at the Heard Museum regarding her book art which was included in a Heard exhibit. She won the ALA Pura Belpre Honors twice, a national award for authentic depictions within a cultural context, with regard to children's literature.  With more than twenty illustrated, published works for others and two titles of her own, Córdova Boone continues to feed her love of the hoop... through art and word. Currently, she lives in a small village outside of Oaxaca, Mexico with her artist husband, Steven Boone. The piece I created for this powerful and much-needed collaboration is entitled, "HOW MANY BROKEN HEARTS?" We will never see the eyes of these missing sisters, women, and girls ever again. Many are forgotten, not by families, but by society in general....those unknown, those statistics. The design on her garment is a representation of a "count" of those who have disappeared. The broken hearts speak for themselves.