Irlanda holds a bachelor's degree in ourstory, a Bachelor's in anthropology, and a Master's in information resource and library science. She is currently attending the University of New Mexico pursuing her MBA. Her passion is the preservation of ephemeral acts and marginalized cultures – particularly hip hop culture and dance, as an art form. During her time as a graduate student at the University of Arizona, she contributed to historical preservation projects at the Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division, as well as UCLA Special Collections, and The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Her most beloved project was a three-year internship with the University of Arizona School of Dance. During her time at the School of Dance, she helped developed the Dance Resource Center a small archive utilized by the faculty of the school. She was the University Archivist at The University of Wyoming from 2015 to 2017 but left her academic career to pursue her passion for hip hop cannabis culture. She has been an illegal recreational consumer of the plant since 1998 and a legal recreational consumer since 2017, when she arrived in Denver, Colorado. She obtained her cannabis medicinal card in New Mexico in 2020, but currently smokes cannabis exclusively on a spiritual basis. She was raised on the border in El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juarez and is a first-generation Mexican American entrepreneur. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she teaches spirituality and dance at Black Widow Pole Arts – one of her marginalized identities entrepreneurial endeavors.