Amrah Salomón J.
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Amrah Salomon J. PhD is a writer, artist, activist, and educator of Mexican, Native American (Akimel O’odham and Tohono O'odham descendant, not enrolled), and European ancestry. Amrah grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives between Southern California and Arizona with her family. She is a co-founder of Rez Beats Indigenous youth performance project, a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice, a member of the O'odham Anti Border Collective, and her work has been published in both academic and literary publications in the United States and in Mexico.
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Academic Work
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Amrah Salomón J. is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California Santa Barbara specializing in transnational Indigenous Studies, Borders, Latinx/Latin American Studies, Digital Humanities, Media and Pop Culture, Research Justice, and Women of Color and Indigenous Feminism. She is a 2020 UC President's Postdoc Fellow and has held Ford Foundation and Davis-Putter fellowships. In 2019 Amrah completed a PhD in Ethnic Studies at University of California, San Diego. Her work has received awards from the University of California, San Diego, the Alliance4Empowerment, and the National Association of Ethnic Studies.
