Instrutora Jabuticaba has been intermittently training with Mestra Márcia Cigarra since 1996 and her sons have grown up in the ACSF school as part of the Capoeira family. Jabuticaba is an immigrant from El Salvador and works in environmental health sciences at UC Berkeley.

Over the past 30 years, she has served on the board of ACSF, has performed in Spirit of Brazil, and has contributed in educational school performances throughout the Bay Area. Every year she participates in workshops with ABADÁ Mestres, including Mestre Camisa, Mestre Cobra, Mestre Morcego, Mestre Pernilongo, Mestre Periquito Verde, and many more Mestrandos in the ABADA organization. She has taught children’s classes in schools and is now part of the teaching staff of Instrutores of ACSF Teen/Adult Capoeira classes.

She has participated in many Capoeira events in Brazil and in Mexico, and in 2025 she competed in the ABADÁ Jogos Mundiais, Baobá (senior) category in Rio de Janeiro, presided by Mestre Camisa. At this event, she received her roxa/laranja cord, that distinguishes her as an instructor in the senior Baobá level. You can usually find her stretching early and often in class, on the side.