Bome Kumari Budha Magar is a Nepalese indigenous rights activist, educator, and former politician. She was born in 1956 in Korchabang village of Rolpa District in western Nepal. Growing up in a remote Magar community, Budha Magar learned traditional skills like hand-weaving hemp cloth from her mother, whom she credits as her first teacher: “For me, my mother was a university in herself… We all learn our indigenous knowledge from our mothers.”