Rebecca Salazar, B.A.

Year: 
2026

Major:
Ethnicity, Race, & Migration

Current positions:
Lazarus Summer Intern
NACC-YSFP Seedkeeper and Programs Liaison

Meet Rebecca Salazar ’26:
Rebecca is a sophomore in Pauli Murray College majoring in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration with a focus on Indigenous, Chicanx and Borderland Studies. She was raised on Payómkawichum (Luiseño) Territory in southern California, with summers spent on the other side of the US-Mexico border on the lands of various tribes grouped as the Conchos, as well as the Suma, Comanche, Warihio, Tepehuan, and the Raramuri, and historically the Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache). She aims to reconnect to Hñähñu, Nu Savi, and Zapotec communities she is descended from on her father’s side. As one of two Seedkeepers/Program Liaisons between the Native American Cultural Center and the Yale Sustainable Food Program, she tends to the Three Sisters garden which is outside the kitchen of the NACC, works to promote relationality between the Native and Indigenous Community and the community space at the Yale Farm, and focuses on educating folks about Indigenous foodways and ontologies.