Bio.

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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Mixed identities are complex. I am an Indigenous descendant, but not currently an enrolled tribal member. My family has Indigenous ancestry, Akimel O'odham and Tohono O'odham, documented through records such as the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and practiced through family oral histories and community relationships. I also have ancestry from other tribal nations that our family recognizes. My Mexican heritage comes from the border region of Arizona, California, Sonora, and Baja California and is something I celebrate and practice daily. My European heritage is also mixed (Spanish, Jewish, English, Scottish, and German with some of those ancestors being recent migrants to the Americas and some with very long and problematic settler histories). I practice accountability for my relationship to whiteness and settler privileges. Much of my work, both artistically and politically, centers my mixed ancestral and cultural experience, its beauty and unique challenges, the responsibilities, and complex communities that mixed life entails.