Just another Indigenous multi-hyphenate
I study the grammars we inherit — and the ones we grow back.
As a Chamoru linguist, I work at the confluence of Indigenous language work & reclamation and formal linguistic analysis, while centering Indigenous linguistic knowledge that is rooted in community, memory, story, land, and futures.
Highlights: 2025
Master of Arts in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Capstone: “Nonverbal clauses in Chamoru: predicational vs specificational, identificational, and equative”
Journal of Pacific History, Volume 60, Issue 2: “In Our Own Words: Histories in Languages of Oceania”
Article: “En Sigi Ha’ Mo’na: A Genealogy of CHamoru Resistance to Language Erasure”
Co-author: Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas
COIL — Conference on Indigenous Language, Univeristy of California, Davis
Presentation: “Language arts exercise as language reclamation praxis”