Carla Macal is an interdisciplinary anti-colonial feminist scholar dedicated to community-engaged research addressing the intersections between state violence and intergenerational healing. From 2024-2025, she was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego’s Department of Literature. She will be joining the Critical Theory and Social Justice Department as an Associate Professor, teaching Decolonizing Education and Indigenous Feminisms. Dr. Macal is working on her book-in-progress, Healing Cartographies: GuateMaya Feminists Weaving Transformative Memory across the Hemisphere, which follows the oral and embodied testimonies of Guatemalan and Maya women survivors of the 36-year (1960-1996) war and their production of counter-cultural memory. She is the creator of , an herbalist project preserving ancestral Indigenous knowledge.