Carla Macal
…is a first-generation Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. Her dissertation titled, Cuerpo-Territorio: Intergenerational Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Cartographies of Healing among GuateMaya Feminist Groups, is informed by decolonial Indigenous epistemologies of the global majority. Her research interests consist of intersections between state violence and intergenerational healing. Carla holds a Masters-of-Social Work, from University of Southern California and a B.A. in Sociology from University of California, Irvine. She is an adjunct lecturer at East Los Angeles Community College in the Social Sciences department. She identifies as an interdisciplinary community scholar engaged with on the ground research and social justice work. Carla is also the creator of Ixoq Arte, an herbalist project preserving ancestral Indigenous knowledge.
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