Grad Student - CRNAI

Jimena Perez

Geography, UC Berkeley

Jimena Perez is a community-engaged scholar, NSF GRFP Fellow, and Geography Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation explores the L.A. River—known to the Tongva as paayme paxaayt—as a site of memory, resistance, and repair. Raised in Southeast Los Angeles, she witnessed the River’s confinement in concrete, mirroring the struggles of nearby working-class communities. Rather than centering loss, her ethnographic research highlights the visions and practices of residents across L.A. County who challenge dominant planning narratives and reimagine infrastructure. Jimena’s...

Everardo Reyes

Ethnomusicology, UC Berkeley

Everardo “Ever” Reyes (Rarámuri descent and Chicanx) is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the intersections between music, social movements, and Indigenous self-determination. His dissertation focuses on the contemporary sonic and political influences of the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz Island by the Indians of All Tribes on Indigenous social movements. Ever also works on Rarámuri and Nahuatl language revitalization through music technology and songwriting with the Indigenous Poetics Lab at the Arts Research...

Marlena Robbins

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Marlena Robbins is a Doctor of Public Health candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Program Coordinator for the Collective Continuance: Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship, where her research utilizes implementation science, Indigenous methodologies, and public health prevention theory to develop a fellowship for early-career UC Berkeley PhD students interested in studying at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge systems and psychedelic science. The fellowship connects students with Indigenous-led organizations and advisors to help them craft their...

Henry Sales

School of Education, UC Berkeley

Henry Leonel Sales Hernández is an Indigenous Maya Mam educator, researcher, and doctoral student in the School of Education at UC Berkeley. Born and raised in San Juan Atitán, Guatemala, and currently living in Oakland, California, his work is rooted in language justice, cultural affirmation, and educational equity. His research and work focuses on the revitalization of the Mam language through early childhood education, storytelling, and community-based practices. Drawing on ethnographic methods, Henry studies how Mam toddlers, youth, and their families in Oakland engage with books and...

Alexii Sigona

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Danny Sosa Aguilar

Anthropology,  UC Berkeley

Annalise Taylor

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Rosario Torres

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Carlotta Wright de la Cal

History, UC Berkeley

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

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

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...