Brizeida is a proud first-generation student in her fourth year at UCLA majoring in Anthropology with a minor in Spanish. She is from the Bay Area and is currently completing a Departmental Honors Thesis in the Anthropology Department which focuses on an indigenous group from Sinaloa, Mexico known as the Yoreme/Mayo. Her research seeks to understand the complexity of indigenous identity among the Yoreme as well as investigate how the Yoreme are preserving/maintaining their identity through specific forms of cultural involvement during a threatening time of cultural loss. Brizeida hopes her research can reveal the on-going threat that indigenous peoples face, specifically in Mexico, as not only their identities are being impacted, but their cultural traditions are in danger of being lost. After graduating with a bachelor’s from UCLA, she intends to pursue a graduate degree in anthropology with the aim of continuing her research in Mexico about indigenous peoples.