Christina is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist whose research interests include indigenous peoples of the Americas, discourse and identity, racial and ethnic discourses, grassroots activism, and cognitive anthropology. Her most recent research has focused on border indigenous activist responses to U.S.-Mexico border policy in collaboration with the grassroots indigenous organization Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras / Indigenous Alliance Without Borders. Her current writing projects include a book manuscript, “Divided Nations: Policy, Activism and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” and a chapter on hip-hop as U.S.-Mexico border activism and identity discourse for a scholarly volume on indigenous music and modernity.