Cinthya Ammerman, Dr.

Dr. Cinthya Ammerman Muñoz is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her research and pedagogy focus on Indigenous connections across the American Hemisphere and Indigenous land defense movements. Dr. Ammerman is a multiheritage interdisciplinary scholar from Wallmapu, ancestral Mapuche homelands in southern Chile. She was raised throughout Latin America before coming to the U.S. to study sociology at George Mason University. She went on to complete her MSc in Community Development and PhD in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis.