A member of the UW faculty since 2008, Dr. García received a bachelor of arts with honors at William and Mary before going on to earn both a master’s and Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University. Her book, Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development and Multicultural Activism, was published in 2005. Also the director of the Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue, Dr. Garcia’s work focuses on indigenous intellectual production and human-animal articulations.