Santino G. Camacho is a multiethnic, Queer CHamoru scholar from the island of Guåhan (Guam). He is currently a PhD candidate at the UW School of Social Work. As an active member of the WA Queer and Transgender Pacific Islander community, he serves as a board member of UTOPIA WA a Queer and Transgender Pacific Islander (QTPI) non-profit organization that provides health, social, and cultural services to QTPI in WA state. He is also a lead creative in the Guma Gela': Trans and Queer CHamoru art collective. 

Tino is a co-principal investigator for the lab and facilitates community partnerships with local NH/PI nonprofit organizations and community leaders. His current research examines culturally grounded health promotion for QTPI communities that address the impacts of settler colonialism on Indigenous connectedness for QTPI. Specifically, he is examining the use of QTPI stories in promoting connectedness for QTPI with their culture, community, family, lands, and ancestors, and its impact on their overall wellbeing. Tino’s research interests include the application of cultural resurgence and resistance; Indigenist research methodologies, Pasifika relational values and ethics; and Indigenous and Pasifika health equity.