Ákót’éégo Diné Asdzání Nishłį.
Hashtł’ishnii nishłį́.
Dziłtł’ahnii báshíshchíín.
Táchii’nii éí da shicheii.
Tótsohnii éí da shinálí.
Larissa is of the Mud People and born for the Mountain Cove People. Her maternal grandfather is of the Red Running Into the Water People and her paternal grandfather is of the Big Water People.
She was born and raised in a small, mountain community in the northeastern part of the Navajo Nation called Ni’iijííh Hasání (Sawmill, Arizona). Her maternal grandparents are from Ni’iijííh Hasání and her paternal grandparents are from Séí Bídaagai (Seba Dalkai, Arizona).
Larissa is a Curatorial Associate in the Painting & Sculpture department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a Curatorial Consultant for the Gochman Family Collection.
She is concurrently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
She holds Master of Arts degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and Public Humanities from Brown University. She also earned her Bachelor of Arts in Art History with a minor in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame.