About

Dr. Carla Macal holds a doctorate in Geography from the University of Oregon and is currently a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego’s Department of Literature. Her dissertation titled, Cuerpo-Territorio: Embodied Transformative Memory and Cartographies of Healing among GuateMaya Feminist Groups, is informed by decolonial Indigenous epistemologies of the global majority. Her research interests consist of intersections between state violence and intergenerational healing. Carla holds a Master of Social Work, from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. She is an adjunct lecturer at East Los Angeles Community College in the Social Sciences department. She identifies as an interdisciplinary community scholar engaged with on-the-ground research and social justice work.

Carla is also the creator of Ixoq Arte, an herbalist project preserving ancestral Indigenous knowledge.