Raylene S.

Borrego
1388 Grant Ave.
Arcata, CA 95521
(909) 499-1250
rsb65@humboldt.edu

EDUCATION SPECIAL TOPIC COURSES

University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Ethical Foraging

SEPTEMBER 2023-PRESENT •HSU, Spring 2022
● PhD Candidate in Anthropology with an interdisciplinary Danza Azteca
emphasis in Environment and Society •HSU, Spring 2022
● Masters in Anthropology, Archaeology Specialization, Animals, Culture, and
June 2027 Environment
• HSU, Spring 2022
Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata, CA
Anthropology, Ecology, and
MAY 2022 Conservation
● Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, double emphasis in •HSU, Fall 2021
Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology Archaeology of Mesoamerican
Warfare
•HSU, Fall 2021
San Bernardino Valley College, San Bernardino, CA
MAY 2020 ​Living in the Anthropocene
● Associate in Arts Anthropology, August 2020 ​• HSU, Spring 2021
● Associate in Arts Communication Studies, May 2020 ​
​Plants and Civilization
​• HSU, Spring 2021
JOBS ​
​Dance in World Cultures
Research Assistant - Belize Project
​•HSU, Fall 2020
JUNE 2022 - DECEMBER 2022
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•Soil Analysis ​Chinese Cultural Heritage and
Archaeology
Archaeological Technician- Cal Poly Humboldt, Cultural Resource ​• HSU, Fall 2020
Facility ​
JUNE 2022 - DECEMBER 2022
​Anthropology of Food
•Fieldwork ​• SBVC, Fall 2019

•Report Writing

•Data Analysis RESEARCH INTEREST

•Collections Management Support

Anthropology in the media •
Cultural Resource
Management • Dance
INTERNSHIP
Anthropology •
Ethnobotany Team Member - University of California, Santa Environmental Anthropology
Barbara, Hoelle Culture and Environment Lab
OCTOBER 2023 - PRESENT • Ethnobotany • Feminist
Archaeology • Gender and
•Organized ethical foraging workshops
Development • Museum
•Assisted in landscaping UCSB Ethnobotany Garden Anthropology •
Paleoethnobotany •
•Local archaeobotany research

Project Support - Cal Poly Humboldt, Cultural Resource Facility CERTIFICATIONS

FEBRUARY 2022 - MAY 2022
231 - Hour Herbalist
•Archaeological site recordation Certificate
August 2023
•Pedestrian transect survey, reconnaissance survey
CITI Program - Human
•Responsible for CRF social media; Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Subjects Research Certificate
February 2021-2024
•Assisted in CalNAGPRA project

•Research on Higgins boat recovered in Shasta Lake

LANGUAGES

English

Spanish
COMMUNITY SERVICE/VOLUNTEER
Nahuatl - novice
Indigenous Food Festival
APRIL 2022

Potawot Community Garden REFERENCES

MARCH 2022 - PRESENT
•Garden maintenance, team projects Tamara Serrao-Leiva
Curator of Anthropology
San Bernardino County Museum
Inland Empire Native Nursery 2024 Orange Tree Lane
2020 - AUGUST 2021 Redlands, California 92374
• Cleaning up the side of 210 Freeway in San Bernardino County (909) 798-8623
Tamara.Serrao-Leiva@sbcm.sbco
unty.gov
San Bernardino County Museum
DECEMBER 2019- AUGUST 2021 Melissa King, PhD
• Assistant curator, organizing, logging, identifying artifacts, cleaning Assistant Professor and Faculty Chair
of Anthropology
artifacts San Bernardino Valley College
701 S Mt Vernon Ave
AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting Changing Climates|Changer D’air San Bernardino, CA 92410
NOVEMBER 2019 (909)387-1633
mking@sbccd.edu
Creative People’s Conference
Marisol Cortes-Rincon, PhD
2019
Professor in Archaeology, Advisor,
• Cultural Dance Representative Director of Archaeology Research
Lab, and Interim Director of Cultural
Debate Tournament at San Bernardino Valley College Resource Facility
2016 1 Harpst St
Arcata, CA 95521
(707)826-4335
mc479@humboldt.edu
CLUBS
Jeffrey Hoelle, PhD
Humboldt State University Anthropology Club Associate Professor of
Anthropology
2020 - 2022 University of California, Santa
Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Danza Azteca (805)893-4244
2021 - 2022 hoelle@ucsb.edu

Humboldt State University World Dance Club

2020 - 2021

President of Anthropology Club at San Bernardino Valley College

2019 - 2020

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Anthropological Association

OCTOBER 2019 - PRESENT

National Association of Student Anthropologists

OCTOBER 2019 - PRESENT

PROJECTS

San Bernardino County Ethnobotany Website

JANUARY 2024 - PRESENT
• A website to share the properties of plants that can be found in San
Bernardino County, while acknowledging and respecting Indigenious
practices. This website motivates considerate engagement with all plants,
especially native plants.

An Archaeological Investigation into the Perceptions of Gender during

Ancient Maya times
DECEMBER 2021 - MAY 2022
• A re-examination of stelaes and other iconographic evidence of the
ancient Maya to explore their concept of gender.

IE Anthropology
DECEMBER 2021 - PRESENT
• A podcast relevant to the Inland Empire addressing current matters and
sharing stories about the community, culture, history, and environment.

The Life of Women in a Confucian Philosophy

DECEMBER 2020
• A digital curation expressing female significance and roles in Confucian
philosophy.