With years of ethnographic fieldwork with young people in community-based-organizations throughout the U.S., Adelma studies the creative activities of youth, both in and outside of school. She's involved in arts programming and cultural preservation efforts in New Mexico. Adelma lives with her family and a menagerie of cats, dogs, chickens, and honeybees in Santa Fe.

Adelma's debut book, Resolana: A Family's Memoir of Place, tells a three-generation coming of age story in a rural Hispanic village in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Weaving together the writings of her father, mother, brother, and two sons, Adelma shares personal insights into the back to the land movement of the 1960s and 70s and its implications for how we live today. Resolana pulls us into its stories of land-based knowledge and communal wisdom while shedding light on how we can create more than we consume today. Resolana appeals to readers of Western literature and history, creative nonfiction and memoir, as well as those interested in self-sufficiency, land conservation, and environmental advocacy.