Job title:
2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Bio/CV:
Cristina Méndez (she/her/ella) is a Chicana writer and educator born and raised in the Bay Area (Muwekma Ohlone territory). Through her ongoing work alongside Maya Mam activists on projects of language revitalization, she explores the continuum of how people understand and support each other across lines of difference. Cristina is interested in coalitions, tensions, transformational learning, and healing as she envisions other futurities in the present.
Cristina was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative - she was chosen in the Graduate Student Fellow category.