Aloha – my hometown is Los Angeles, California (Venice) where I attended school as a Title VII (Indian Education) student in one of the largest and most diverse urban indigenous communities in the U.S. My identification is as a multiethnic Indigenous (Tohono O’odham/Kanaka Hawai’i/Chicano) scholar, artist, poet and educator where my work is dedicated to the promotion of healing through Intersection Kinship.

Education:
M.A.I.S., Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, History, Oregon State University, 2018.
B.A., Ethnic and Women Studies, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2015.
A.A., Chicana/o Studies, East Los Angeles College, 2012.

Research Interests:
My research focuses on oral histories and traditions in the creation of communal memory, as well as processes of cultural preservation and decolonization practices in Urban Indigenous communities. Additional research interest include gentrification as communal genocide, multiracial identity formations, generational memory and space, intersectional communal histories and Ohana (Intersectional Kinship) as a critical pedagogy.

Presentations:
46th Annual Conference of the National Association for Ethnic Studies | Virginia Commonwealth University
PRESENTER. "REIMAGINING ALLYSHIP AS OHANA: THE CASE FOR RADICAL KINSHIP IN OUR CLASSROOMS, COMMUNITIES, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS" MARCH 2018.

2018 Northwest Student Leadership Conference | Portland, Oregon
PRESENTER. "REIMAGINING ALLYSHIP AS OHANA: THE CASE FOR RADICAL KINSHIP IN OUR CLASSROOMS, COMMUNITIES, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS" MARCH 2018.

17th Annual Oregon Students of Color Coalition Conference | University of Oregon
PRESENTER. “THE THIRD SPACE: DISCOVERY INTO MULTIRACIALITY” NOVEMBER 2017.

ETHNIC STUDIES NOW! A Student Research Symposium | Oregon State University
PANALIST. “ORAL HISTORIES WITHIN THE NATIVE DIASPORA” MAY 2017

2017 Association of Asian American Studies Conference | Portland, Oregon
PANALIST. “MIXED ASIAN AMERICANS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: BUILDING COMMUNITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS” APRIL 2017.