My name is Dr. Linda Quiquivix. I am a geographer, writer, artist, and popular educator of Maya roots. My work brings together geography, storytelling, and imagination with the ongoing work of creating a world where many worlds fit.
I am a daughter of the undocumented migrant community in California from Mexico and Central America. My last name is pronounced kee-kee-veesh. It is a Maya K’iche’ name that means “Sweet Deer Song” or “Sweet Is Her Song,” depending.
For more than 25 years, I have had the honor of learning from, living with, and being a part of communities in the global struggle for life in the United States, Chiapas, Guatemala, and Palestine.
As a human being, my vision is that we learn to share the world with all our difference, relating to each other not as above vs. below, but as together and side-by-side.
As an educator, my mission is to help us locate our gifts so that we may develop them in constellation, toward a world where many worlds fit.
In gratitude,
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Global Humanities — Brown University (2012-14)
- PhD in Geography — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2012)
- Certificate in Middle East Studies — Duke University (2012)
- MA in Geography — California State University, Northridge (2006)
- BA in Business Administration and Information Systems — California State University, Northridge (2003)
- Congressional Intern — U.S. House of Representatives (Spring 2001)
- Research — cartography; borders; territory; Palestine; Latin America; Native America, Africa
- Teaching — geography, history, political theory, Maya philosophy and healing
- Books & Art — Palestine 1492: A Report Back (Wild Ox Books, 2024)
- Essays — in Places Journal, The Funambulist, NACLA, Electronic Intifada, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Translations — Sylvia Marcos, Alberto Vallejo Reyna, Raul Romero, Daliri Oropeza
- Podcast — WW4: A Podcast Syllabus
- Letters — Letters from Below
- Workshops & Online Education — Where Many Worlds Fit
“Zapatismo and Pluriversal Ontologies” at the Land and Liberation: Indigenous Sovereignty, Social Ecology, and Returning to Right Relationship 2026 Social Ecology Summer Intensive, at Native Roots Network, Redding CA, June 6, 2026,