Just another Indigenous multi-hyphenate

I study the grammars we inherit and the ones we sow in return.

As a Chamoru and transgender linguist, I work at the confluence of language reclamation, language revitalization, & linguistics, while centering community, accountability, & reciprocity.

Recent

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


18th Conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics

Presentation: “Nonverbal clauses in Chamoru: predicational vs specificational, identificational, and equative”

Forthcoming: July 22–24, 2026