Ingrid Sub Cuc

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Ph.D. Candidate

Ingrid is Maya Kaqchikel/Q’eqchi and a PhD candidate in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her work, passion and interest are at the intersection of health, and language. She is a public speaker, advocate, leader, academic and healer focusing on initiatives of community reconciliation and Indigenous rights.

Dissertation:  The Health of Our Language is the Health of our People: Conceptualizing Health and Wellbeing in Indigenous Languages to Improve Public Health Outcomes

Presentations:

  • Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Facultad de Medicina, "Tak'oxaj Nutzij: el idioma como parte fundamental de la salud y el bienestar de las comunidades maya-hablantes en Guatemala y en la diaspora indigena", August 21, 2024, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Plenary Speaker
  • Latin American Studies Association, “LASA2024 Hybrid Congress: Reacción y resistencia: Imaginar futuros posibles en las Américas”, June 12-15, 2024, Bogota, Colombia, Presenter 
  • The International Maya League, “Train the Trainer Workshop: Indigenous Languages Interpreter”, November 3-6, 2023, Washington D.C., Participant 
  • Migrantes Unidos, “Encuentro Migrante Guatemalteco con Autoridades de los Pueblos Ancestrales en Resistencia” October 27, 2023, Virtual Forum broadcasted via YouTube & Facebook live, Moderator
  • CLUES Gala Latina, “Celebrando el Liderazgo y la Cultura Latina”, October 5, 2023, Minneapolis, MN, Keynote Speaker 
  • UNIDOS US Annual Conference, “Plenary: Untangling Racism’s Effects on Health”, July 21-24, 2023, Chicago, IL, Plenary Speaker
  • 25th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), April 14-15,2023, University of California Santa Barbara, Presenter
  • CONPID “Unidos En Nuestra Resistencia: Conversaciones entre Académicos y Activistas Indígenas a través de las Fronteras Coloniales,” February 18, 2023 UCLA Labor Center, Moderator
  • UNIDOS US Latinx Health Equity Summit “A Fireside Chat on the Intersection of Race, Identity, and Health,” Phoenix, AZ. December 6-8, Panel Speaker 
  • III Cumbre de Mujeres Indígenas de Abya Yala, October 9 – 12, 2022, Guatemala City, Representative for the National Council of Indigenous Peoples in the Diaspora (CONPID)

 

Education and Degree(s)
  • M.A., Native American Studies, University of California Davis
  • M.P.H., Global Health in Leadership, Policy and Management, University of Washington, Seattle, 2021
  • B.S., Biology, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, 2014
Honors and Awards
  • 2024-2025 Building Indigenuity, Generating HIV Science: HIV/AIDS Research Training (BIG HART) Program Fellow
  • 2024 Lighting Up Native Aspirations (LUNA) Fellowship
  • 2023 University of California Davis, Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship
  • 2021 Native American Studies Graduate Program Fellowship, UC Davis
  • 2020 & 2022 Kaqchikel Maya Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Tulane University
  • 2019 Department of Global Health Excellence, Equity, and Impact Fellowship Award, University of Washington
Publications
  • Sub Cuc, Ingrid. Esta lucha no tiene fronteras: ¡Desde la diáspora guatemalteca también pedimos la renuncia de los corruptos y un nuevo amanecer!, Prensa Comunitaria, October 23, 2023. https://prensacomunitaria.org/2023/10/esta-lucha-no-tiene-fronteras-desde-la-diaspora-guatemalteca-tambien-pedimos-la-renuncia-de-los-corruptos-y-un-nuevo-amanecer/
  • Mensa-Kwao, A., Sub Cuc, I., Concepcion, T., Kemp, C. G., Hughsam, M., Sinha, M., & Collins, P. Y. (2024). A mixed methods analysis of youth mental health intervention feasibility and acceptability in a North American city: Perspectives from Seattle, Washington. PloS One, 19(3), e0288214–e0288214. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288214
  • Figueroa, J.C., Paniagua-Avila, A., Sub Cuc, I. et al. Explanatory models of hypertension in Guatemala: recognizing the perspectives of patients, family members, health care providers and administrators, and national-level health system stakeholders. BMC Public Health 22, 2320 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14668-7
  • Sub Cuc, Ingrid. Ri qach’ab’äl ja ri ruk’ux ri qawinaq, chuqa’ ri qawinaq ja ri ruk’ux ri qachab’äl: Linguistic Resilience in Guatemala. Weaver, Hilary N. The Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous Resilience. Routledge, 2022, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003048428