Amada is a graduate student pursuing a Master’s Degree in Literature at Loyola University Chicago. She strives to explore and preserve cultural stories of indigeneity and diasporic experiences related to her Mexican and Filipino heritages. Currently, she is studying to be a professor with hopes of reforming an intersectional approach to teaching and community building through education.

Her other interests include queer studies, modern and post-modern theories, stories of migration and connection to land, prison systems and incarceration stories, cultural connections around food and storytelling, and so much more.

Amada’s work has been published in an undergraduate magazine and a local opinion website in Hawai’i. She desires connection and community building through writing and cultural formations.