ABOUT ME
Yesenia Navarrete Hunter, PhD, is a trained historian, artist, musician, and scholar. She is an Associate Professor of History at Heritage University in Washington State.

Dr. Hunter was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. as a child. She is the daughter of Guadalupe Marquez and Alberto Marquez, now of Wapato, Washington, where she grew up as a migrant farm worker. Her current work, called “Entangled Histories of Land and Labor,” centers on the braided histories of immigrants and Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest. By looking at movement, migration, and material practices, Dr. Hunter looks at how groups made places of belonging and crafted opportunities for new relationships. Her public history work is guided by the question: How do people make place and create rhythms of belonging in fragile spaces? The aesthetics of her work are guided by elements of place, memory, embodied practices, and relationality.


CONTACT ME
EVERYTHING: [email protected]
DOULA WORK: [email protected]

My linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yesenia-navarrete-hunter-87352679/
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My link tree here: linktr.ee/ProfeYesi


A selection of articles about me and my work:

In Washington's Yakima Valley Quinceañeras Connect People and Place
Hight Country News,
November 1, 2024
https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-11/in-washingtons-yakima-valley-quinceaneras-connect-people-and-place/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGVTqVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWrTxWD0Qg8QcqsfwLY4VP4vburqQDAGLx2oELZJnhhtDPxGRQE7ziTNBw_aem_Wk7MVSDdC6qY69FRN8ksbA

More in Common that You Think
July 2024
American Communities Project
https://www.americancommunities.org/more-in-common-than-you-think/
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​Con Su Trabajo Muestra Herencia Latina
Yakima Herald/el Sol de Yakima
January 30, 2023
vhttps://www.elsoldeyakima.com/noticias/locales/yesenia-navarrete-hunter-con-su-trabajo-muestra-su-herencia-latina/article_e0ef8cd0-9b5b-11ed-a6ac-c7e718874cda.html

Art exhibit in Tieton centered on people who died trying to cross into the U.S. is closing soon
Yakima Herald
​July 14, 2022
https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/art-exhibit-in-tieton-centered-on-people-who-died-trying-to-cross-into-the-u/article_52289063-8360-5599-a175-6c74017e31a0.html

Community comes together to celebrate quinceañera exhibit at Yakima museum
Yakima Herald
April 19, 2024
https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/community-comes-together-to-celebrate-quincea-era-exhibit-at-yakima-museum/article_a51d5e02-fda8-11ee-a0e3-3b341cef65b1.html

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