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