Jimena Gajra Marquez was a teenager when she began her Siddha Yoga practice in Mexico City in 1996, participating in weekly teen satsangs and in Shaktipat Intensives for young people. Currently, she serves as translation coordinator and host in the Siddha Yoga Meditation Center in Montreal and offers her writing and editing skills in the SYDA Foundation.

Gajra holds a BA in religious studies from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, an MA in cultural anthropology from the University of Montreal, and a PhD in education from the University of Ottawa. She works for the Inuit school board in charge of education in northern Quebec. Gajra lives in Montreal with her husband and their three children.