Eva Trujillo is the NAGPRA Repatriation Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego. She wrote in a recent profile, “My name is Eva Trujillo. I am siny ‘Iipay-Kumeyaay (northern woman), and I consider myself to be a student of life and a life student. I wear many different hats including wife, mother, sister, niece, auntie, cousin, and more. I grew up both on, and off my reservation of Mesa Grande, and continue to reside, work, and thrive within my traditional ancestral territory. For over 20 years I have worked for the UC San Diego Medical Center. First, as a Clinical Care Partner and later, a Hospital Unit Service Coordinator. It was only when I decided to act in the service of my Ancestors and in turn, my career path shifted to repatriation efforts, eventually leading me to my role on campus as the new UC San Diego Repatriation Coordinator. I connect with both my heritage and culture by serving my Ancestors, Elders, and Indigenous community. I actively participate in ceremony both individually, and along with my community just as my Ancestor before me, and after me. I’m learning my language so that my Ancestors will one day understand me and it is a conscious effort to decolonize colonial spaces. The realization of active efforts to exterminate Indigenous peoples and their culture became my motivation to resist these colonial ideologies. My mere existence is resistance.”