Carlotta Wright de la Cal is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research lies at the intersection of Indigenous history, labor control, and immigration policy in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her dissertation project examines how railroad corporations reshaped mobility, labor systems, and racialized border control across the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project centers transborder Indigenous communities—particularly Yaqui and Mayo—who incorporated railroad work into community-building and resistance...
Mo'e Yaisikana is a member of Cou (Indigenous Taiwanese) and a doctoral student at the School of Social Welfare. His intellectual interests concern care equity for Taiwan's older adults. He examines the construction and hindrance of care policies and service delivery system and aims to unravel a comprehensive, systematic, intersecting dynamic form of power to help explain challenges for Indigenous elders' accessibility to care service. His research includes the development of care service techniques, the intersection between governmental service and political democratization, and...
Alexis Atsilvsgi is a Cherokee and Chicana Master of Public Policy student at the Goldman School. She previously served on the California Community College’s Board of Governors and the University of California Board of Regents. Alexis works at the intersection of higher education, supply chain/logistics infrastructure, legal geographies, surveillance policy, and geopoetics to understand geographies of hope in capitalist-entrenched rural landscapes, as well as spatial-driven governance structures. Her past projects include hope-mapping carceral, logistics, and education pathways in rural...
