Sierra Edd

Department and Institution: 
Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
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Sierra Edd (Diné) is a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is Tł’ógi, born for the Kinłichii’nii people and grew up in Durango, Colorado / Four corners. Her research interests are in Indigenous gender and sexuality, culture, storytelling, futures/futurity, and digital media. She is also a 2020 recipient of the Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and a coordinator for the Indigenous Sound Studies working group and Berkeley’s Center for New Media Indigenous Technologies Program.