Cynthia is a doctoral candidate at UC San Diego in the Ethnic Studies Department with a graduate specialization in Critical Gender Studies. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar in humanities and social sciences, her research is situated at the nexus of critical theories of Indigenous transborder migrations, Indigeneity, settler-colonialism, binational schooling, Indigenous & border epistemologies, and Latinidad.

Born in LA, brought up in Las Vegas, called San Diego her home for ten years. Cynthia identifies as Xicana and is deeply involved in relationship making with artists and local tribal community based on land pedagogies, liberatory practices, and resistance.

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