Grad Student - CRNAI

Ghaleb Attrache

Ghaleb Attrache is a sociology PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He studies the relationships between culture, knowledge, embodiment, and power, especially in the context of environmental stewardship and human-nonhuman interactions. Ghaleb’s dissertation examines efforts among governmental, non-governmental, and Indigenous fire and land management organizations in California to practice and promote intentional burning. Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the dissertation compares the different ways fire practitioners understand fire and land’s aliveness, and how this...

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Hector Callejas

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

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Vreni Michelini Castillo

Art Practice, UC Berkeley

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Ataya Cesspooch

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

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Bonnie Cherry

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Bonnie Cherry is a PhD Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Berkeley Law. Her work explores the martial origins (and persisting militaristic dimensions) of the administrative state, and how the management of Indian affairs shaped civilian administrative policies and enforcement mechanisms from the earliest days of the nation. Her current project focuses on how Tribal nations either facilitate or resist militarization of Tribal lands. She is a Berkeley Empirical Legal Scholars Fellow, a John L. Simpson Research Fellow in International and Area Studies, and an AAUW Dissertation...

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Kathleen Corpuz

School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Kathleen Corpuz is a DrPH student at the School of Public Health and a Filipina settler in Hawai'i, deeply committed to fostering interethnic collaboration to improve public health systems for Filipinos, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. With a background in strengthening research capacity and community services through university partnerships, she supports grassroots movements that prioritize collective solidarity. Kathleen actively engages in community-led research practices, advocating for food sovereignty by restoring lo'i kalo and promoting wrap-around services for justice-...

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Sierra Edd

Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

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.