Grief got her to think about her own legacy. “If I died today, the age my mother died, would I say I lived my life to the full?” She asked herself. Her mother left a legacy of love and courage.  Born girl number three in a succession of girls in 1970, when girls were not of equal value with boys; and enduring the pain of both gender and racial injustice from her childhood to her womanhood, Francisca knew that before she died, she wanted to dismantle the systems that caused her pain and trauma and make the world more loving, equal and free.