Biography

Paula Sofia Ayala is a doctoral student in the Chicana/o and Central American Studies department whose focus is on displaced Central American, African and Indigenous people. She is currently focused on the role that nationalisms and sub-empires perpetuate in identity formation, racism, solidarities and territoriality. She is an autonomous cultural and political education worker who has documented, exhibited and presented locally and internationally.  She holds her BA and MA in Latin American Studies from CSULA.