Thalia Quintana

Thalia Quintana

Office: 1120 Rolfe Hall

Email: yaquesita881@gmail.com

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Biography

Thalia Gomez-Quintana (Yaqui- Yoeme) is a doctoral student in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Thalia received her master’s from the University of Arizona, where she worked with elders from the 39th South Tucson community on issues pertaining to Yaqui water rights in Sonora, Mexico. Thalia’s current research centers on Yaqui ontological relationships to the Yaqui River which unsettle settler environments generated through neoliberalism, settler modernity, and anthropogenic climate change.

Research Interests

Neoliberalism, Settler Modernity, and Anthropogenic Climate Change.