Citlalli Garcia

Citlalli (she/they) is a third year PhD Student in sociocultural and linguistic anthropology . She holds a bachelors and a masters degree in education studies, language, and literacy. Her past research projects have looked at the different ways racialized youth draw on their linguistic skills for knowledge production and strategic engagement in educational systems. Her current research interests are focused around using indigenous, decolonial, and collaborative methodologies to understand how Chicagoland (Aztec) danzantes engage in knowledge production through their embodied traditions for indigenous language and cultural reclamation. She has been studying Older & Huastecan Nahuatl for over 3 years to support her thinking and research, as well as to pay homage to the language that inspired her mother´s political act of naming.

This university has a particular responsibility to support the return of relatives and lands to the indigenous nations which were exploited for its academic prestige and financial benefit: Peoria, Kaskaskia, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Myaamia, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ.