I am an associate professor in justice and social inquiry at the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. I research Indigenous peoples’ approaches to digital technologies.
I am Chicanx from my father’s side and on my mother’s side am an enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. I received my doctorate in 2013 from the Information School at the University of Washington. Before I was a professor, I was a librarian. Before I was a librarian, I was a student of creative writing. I believe in the transformative power of storywork. I apply a co-creative pedagogy in my courses on justice theory, learning technologies in Indigenous contexts, digital activism, and Indigenous methodologies. I live in Phoenix, Arizona, with my family and near my many relatives. I thread borderlands thinking through all of my work.