Kristy Martinez (she/her/they) is a PhD Candidate in musicology as well as a vocalist and archivist. She earned her bachelor’s in history with a minor in religion, her master’s in American Indian Studies and in musicology at UCLA. Her work examines subcultural movements in the San Gabriel Valley as well as ephemera, nostalgia, placemaking, music analysis, and identity with a focus on punk, post-punk, heavy metal, and emo. Her family is from Sonora, Mexico, and she has grown up in the San Gabriel Valley area. She has also created a D.I.Y. digital archive “Indigenous Punx Archive” to document punk in the Southwest with flyers, photos, videos, and information on bands. This archive has been included in the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada and the Denver Art Museum. Her work will be included in the forthcoming volume Sovereign Aesthetics (2024). Kristy enjoys attending rock shows and concerts, spending time with her family, and her pet tabby Rigby.