Citlali Rodríguez Venegas lives between Mexico City and the Mazateca Highlands in Oaxaca, Mexico. She holds a PhD in Mesoamerican Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She works as a cultural advisor and collaborator on projects developed within Mazateca communities, such as Memoria Mazateca, dedicated to activating the historical memory of the Mazateca territory, and Casa Adobe, an art gallery and cultural center.

For more than a decade, she has conducted research in the Mazateca Highlands, an Indigenous territory renowned for its shamanic knowledge related to psilocybin mushrooms. She is the author of the book Mazatecos, niños santos y güeros en Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca (2017).

Since 2022, she has collaborated with the collective Chá kjoa tsja kjoa naxó, Gente de Alegría Florida (Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca) and the Indigenous Conservation Fund. She has also taught a Regional History certification program for Mazateca-rooted teachers in the highlands.