Amrah Salomón J.

Amrah Salomón J. is an Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara specializing in transnational Indigenous Studies, Borders, Feminisms, and Chicanx/Latin American Studies. She is a writer and activist of Mexican, Native American (O’odham), and European ancestry and is a co-founder of Rez Beats Indigenous open mic space and a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice (http://www.the-ciej.org). She has held a UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a Davis-Putter Fellowship. She earned a PhD in Ethnic Studies from University of California, San Diego in 2019 and is currently working on a Creative Writing MFA in poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts.