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, an Indigenous youth performance project, 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 completed a PhD in Ethnic Studies at University of California, San Diego. She was a 2017-2018 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow and has been recognized by the Davis-Putter Foundation, Alliance4Empowerment, and the National Association of Ethnic Studies for her activist and academic work. She has received numerous university awards including the University of California, San Diego campus-wide recognition for Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action and Diversity for her teaching. Amrah is the founding director of the UCSD Community and Labor Project, an interdisciplinary community-based research initiative. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California Santa Barbara in the English Department where she specializes on transnational Indigenous Studies.
