Arcia Tecun (a.k.a. Daniel Hernandez) is Wīnak (urban diasporic Mayan from the United States), married to a Pākehā raised in Kirikiriroa, a father to four tamariki, a storyteller (filmmaker, podcaster), and currently a pouako (lecturer) at Waipapa Taumata Rau (University of Auckland) in ethnomusicology and social-cultural anthropology. He will take on a role as co-director of the Tracy Aviary’s Jordan River Nature Center on Turtle Island later this year. His research and teaching interests include indigeneity, race, class, gender, religion, food and popular culture/music in Oceania and the Americas.