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About Me

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 child of California’s undocumented migrant community from Mexico and Central America. My last name is pronounced kee-kee-veesh, 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.

My vision as a human being 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.

My mission as an educator is to help us locate our gifts so that we may develop them in constellation, toward a world where all worlds can fit.

With deep gratitude,

Linda Quiquivix, PhD

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  • Author & ArtistPalestine 1492: A Report Back (Wild Ox Books, 2024)
  • Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Global Humanities — Brown University (2012–2014)
  • 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 (2001)
  • Research — cartography; borders; territory; Palestine; Latin America; Native America, Africa
  • Teaching — geography, history, political theory, capitalism, Maya calendar, ethics, food, theology


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