Preliminary Program
as of 1/20/2025
Time and room information will be available in the printed program available to conference registrants.
See Wednesday/Thursday Saturday
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025
Knowledge and Empowerment in the 805: Community Reflections in Oxnard, CA
Ramirez, Jessica & Gonzalez, Martin Alberto. Portland State University. “Cultura as Resistencia: Reflections on an Asset-Based and Culturally Sustaining Community Engaged Project in Oxnard, CA.”
Gonzalez, Martin Alberto. Portland State University. “Just because you’re Brown, doesn’t mean you’re down: Using Critical Pedagogy to Challenge Internalized -isms In and Out of the Classroom.”
Ramos, Kimberly Ramos. California State University, Channel Islands. “Learning Stories: Indigenous Representation in Mainstream K-12 Schooling.”
Garcia-Barron, Sahni & Diaz, Matthew. California State University, Channel Islands. “It’s also what’s on the outside that matters.”
Xicana, Queer, Feminist and Youth Literature
Cardenas, Norma. Portland State University. “Picturing Latinx Foodscapes: Cultural Affirmation and Resistance through Food in Children’s Literature.”
Martinez, Lillian. The University of Texas, Austin. “Archiving for Preteens: Rethinking Archives for the Modern Chicana/Latina Middle Schooler.”
Pendleton Jiménez, Karleen. Trent University. “Queer Chicanx/Latinx Youth Literature: Building Languages of the Land.”
DeMirjyn, Maricela. Colorado State University. “Muchacha Fanzine: A Manifestation of Xicana Feminist Praxis.”
Workshop: Wealth Reclamation: A Critical Economic Framework for Chicana/o Studies
Garcia, Veronica. California State University, Los Angeles.
Tijerina Revilla, Dr. Anita. California State University, Los Angeles.
Sauceda, Nancy. Albuquerque Local Community.
Decolonial Interventions in Music, Theater and Film
Cervantes, Marco. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Passion of the Poetas: Collaborative Hip Hop Movements towards a Decolonial Black, Brown, and Indigenous Consciousness.”
Diaz Martin, Esther. University of Illinois Chicago. “We didn’t cross the border. versión Africana: The Intro to Latinx Indigeneity Playlist.”
Garcia-Linn, Abril. University of Texas, San Antonio. “The Chicano Arts Theater: A Legacy of Art and Activism .”
Alemán, Sonya. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Daughters of the Plumed Serpent: A LatCritComm and Chicana Feminist Analysis of Chicana Indigenous Identity on Disney+.”
Untold Stories of Survival, Resilience and Resistance in Ventura County
Ruiz, Lisa Marie. California State University Channel Islands. “La Chileria: Latina Workers and the Class Action Lawsuit Against Nabisco.”
Anaya, Andrea. California State University Channel Islands. “Lucy Hicks: Resilience and Resistance of a Transgender Women.”
Delgadillo-Galindo, Jesus. California State University Channel Islands. “Sobreviviendo: Mixtec Migrants Overcoming Racial and Language Barriers in Ventura County.”
Beyond Stereotypes: Reimagining Latinx Leadership in Juana Bordas’ Framework
Lopez, Michelle. University of San Diego.
Tijerina Revilla, Anita. California State University, Los Angeles.
Anaya Servin, Arturo. University of San Diego.
Roundtable: The Stage is our Calli : Chicanx Narratives in Theatre-Making and Performance Roundtable
Martinez, Maribel. San Jose State University/ Queerceañera Project.
Garcia, Rodrigo. Teatro Vision/ Teatro Alebrijes.
Gonzalez, Cristal. El Teatro Campesino.
Martinez, Roberta H.. Amapola Players.
Cid, Christopher. California State University, Los Angeles.
Workshop: Applying Anzaldúa’s Notion of Spiritual Activism to Transform Women’s Narratives of Exclusion During the Mexican Revolution
Flores-Duenas, Leila. University of New Mexico.
Santillan Reyna, Xochitl. University of New Mexico.
Vigil, Carol. Community Member.
Teaching, Learning, and Navigating the Educational System
O’Leary, Anna & Maldonado, Rosa. University of Arizona. “Mexican American Studies as an interdisciplinary and intergenerational site of (re)conocimiento: A self-study of student-centered learning.”
Diaz, Dora. University of Texas, Austin. “Nurturing Our Roots: Analyzing Latinx Teachers Experiences in Central Texas through Platicas.”
Luna, Andrea. Oberlin College. “Speak and Be Heard: Exploring Ways Latina Teachers Navigate the Chicago Public School System.”
Garcia, José. University of Illinois at Chicago. “Chicana/o Studies in the Bilingual Teacher Education Classroom de la Ciudad de los Vientos.”
Artepaño is Chicano Art
Ibarra, Alvaro. Utah State University.
Olguin, Ben. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Davalos, Karen Mary. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Griego, Evangeline. Independent Scholar & Filmmaker.
Roundtable: AfroMexican Futurities: Imagining Worlds of (Re)Existence
Pinacho-Lopez, Diana. University of New Mexico.
Garcia, Gustavo. University of New Mexico.
Esparza, Luis. California State University Northridge.
Toscano, Natalia M. University of New Mexico.
Hernández, Rosario Zonaly. University of New Mexico.
LA High School Voices: Navigating Our Identities, Our Politics, Our School
Carpinteyro, Makayla. Oakwood School. “Seeking Some Light in Election Darkness: The Political and Personal Power of Bilingualism.”
Littman, Natalie. Oakwood School. “What It Means to Be Argentine: Unpeeling the Layers of My Family’s Immigration Story.”
Zapata, Matthew. Oakwood School. “From Emiliano to Matthew: What It Means to Me to Be a Zapata.”
Vanegas, Victoria. Oakwood School. “Writing by Numbers: Forging My Path in the Field of Mathematics to Contribute to Our History.”
From Silence to Strength: Healing Generational Trauma through Translingual Literacy and Chicana/o/x Identidad
Anaya, Marc. University of New Mexico.
Llamas, Lee Ann. University of New Mexico.
Medina, Jewell. University of New Mexico.
Marrufo, Javier. University of New Mexico.
Poblano, Jasmine. University of New Mexico.
Materialist Critique and Chicanx Studies: Reconfiguring Culture, Identity and Economy in the Long Downturn
Acosta Gonzalez, Jaime. University of California, Riverside. “Race, Theatricality, and the Politics of Neoliberalism: Harry Gamboa Jr.’s Chicano Male Unbonded.”
Prado, Alejandro. California State University Northridge. “Chicano Murals in China: Art and Inter-continental Relationships of Political Solidarity.”
Ortiz, Gabriela. University of California, Riverside. “Silent Waters, Hidden Wounds: Slow Violence and Environmental Injustice along the Salton Sea.”
Parra, Michael Andrew. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Haciendo Caras y Miradas: Linguistic Caricatures and the Scopic Regime of US Mestizaje in the Life Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa and Octavio Paz.”
Giardello, Ted. New York University. “Ideology, Identity, Power: Shifts in Historiography of the Chicana/o Movement.”
Pedagogical Interventions In Systems and in the Classroom
Bustos Ochoa, Arturo and Palma, Emily. Sacramento State. “Latino Undergraduate Narratives on Child Language Brokering.”
Hames-Garcia, Michael. University of Texas, Austin. “On the persistent misrecognition of Chicane entanglement with the criminal legal system.”
Castillo, Florence. Texas Christian University & Vazquez Dathe, Magdalena. University of New Mexico. “Carilla and Convivencia as Relational Pedagogical Tools: A Chicana Feminist Approach to Understanding Critical Cultural Practices of the Home in the Classroom.”
Martinez, Angelina. Oberlin College. “Resilient Love In the Face of Educational Segregation: The Navarro Family of Northside, Houston.”
Workshop: Our Fragmented Selves: Thinking About Mental Health for Graduate Students
Zamora, Erica J. University of Arizona.
Hernandez, Maria Jose. University of Arizona.
Maldonado, Rosa. University of Arizona.
Cortez, Imelda G. University of Arizona.
Roundtable: Redefining Barrio Culture Through Chola/o Epistemologies
Ortega, Sebastian. University of Chicago.
Chagolla, Jazmin. University of California, Riverside.
Rivas, Nick. University of New Mexico.
Ortega, Roberto. Arizona State University.
BiblioPolítica: The Chicano Studies Library as an Early Site of Action Research
Castillo-Speed, Lillian. University of California, Berkeley.
Chabran, Richard. NACCS Scholar.
Belantara, Amanda. New York University.
Narrating Identity, Community Building, and Slowing Down: Moving Toward Healing Paradigms of Resistance
Acosta, Christina. University of California, San Diego. “Healing Inter-generationally Through Feeling: Seeing and Recognizing Queer Resistant Power.”
Ramirez, Rain. University of Texas, Austin. “Reclaiming Mother-hood: Healing, Self-Fashioning, and Gestures in Visual Representations of Indigenous and Latina Identity.”
Ayala III, Alfonso. University of Texas, Austin. “‘I’m a Mexican Texan Who’s Ready for Some Sexin’ !’: Theorizing Healing Through the Self-Narration and Community Building of Mr. International Man of Leather 45.”
Andrade, Marlene. University of Oregon. “To Cosechar, is to Heal: Centering Chicana and Latina Radical Wellness Through the Cultivation of Food.”
Vega, Christine. San Jose State University. “Feeding Coatlicue: Griefwork as M(other)work within the Womb of a Shifting Paradigm.”
Validating Afro-Mexicano Experiences and Interrogating Mestizaje Y La Raza Cósmica
Alvarez Jimenez, Samantha Doreli. Benemerita Universidad Autonoma De Puebla. “Identidades en dialogo. La negritud y lo Afromexicano en la construcción de ciudadanía en la costa chica de Guerrero.”
Esparza, Luis. California State University, Northridge. “Mariposas Negras: On Afro-Joteria Via an Intersectional, Decolonial and Socio-Historical Analysis.”
Vigil Miranda, Jim. Bentley University. “Brown World-Making: Toward a Theory of Re-Materialization and Re-Animating Cross-Cultural Affiliation.”
Estrada, Jorge. California State University, Fullerton. “La Raza Cosmica at 100: Reassessing Mestizaje, Indigeneity, and Cultural Identity in Mexican and Chicanx Thought.”
Workshop: Publishing in Chicana/o/x/e Studies: A Workshop with Regeneracion: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal
Serrano Najera, Jose Luis. University of New Mexico.
Gonzalez Cardenas, Elizabeth. University of New Mexico.
Toscano, Natalia M. University of New Mexico.
Garcia, Gustavo. University of New Mexico.
Vasquez, Irene. University of New Mexico.
Indigenous Language and Cultural Work
Calvario Tlahuancapa, Velma. San Diego City College. “Introducing Tlajkuiloltekitijle Nauatlajtojle (Tallercito Nahuatl) and La ‘Maestrita’ de Pueblo” an innovative language maintenance initiative aimed at nurturing the Nahuatl language among Nahua children.”
Sandoval, Mathew. Arizona State University. “Dia de los Muertos en El Valle: 50 years of Chicano & American Indian collaboration.”
Ortega, Fernando. University of California, San Diego. ”Bridging Borders: Indigenous Perspectives on Land, Identity, and Community Resilience.”
Villa, Elizabeth.
A Joteria Future In Chicanx Studies
Luna, Teresa. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Megan and Selena: The Dichotomy of Brown and Black Southern Sexuality and Its Societal Response.”
Ochoa, Juan D. Northern Arizona University. “Ten Years Later, where is Joteria Studies?”
Garcia-Perez, Javier. University of Pennsylvania. “Where we’ve been and where we’re going: A review of clinical social work literature with LGBTQ+ communities of color.”
Calvo-Quiros, William. University of Michigan. “Mariposa Waves: Joterias what is next?”
Roundtable: “Chicana/o Vampires Zombies & Ignoring Hollywood Latinx Rom-Coms - Locura still Cura!”
Montoya, Richard. Culture Clash to RCAF.
Sigüenza, Herbert. Co-Director.
Varela, Sabina. Ensemble.
Conocimientos—Ancestral, Spiritual, and Sentient Knowledge
Chávez, Denise. Author, Book Store Owner Casa Camino Real, Activist.
Berunda,Rose. California State University, Sacramento.
Moderator: Méndez-Negrete, Josie. NACCS Scholar. Founder/ Publisher Conocimientos Press.
Queered Masculinities and the World-Making Tactics in Indigenous and Chicano Literature
Yazzie, Damian. University of California, Santa Barbara. “‘Ride Like That Forever’: Suciedad Space-Making and Reading Desire in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony (1979).”
Carrillo, Francisco. Arizona State University. “The Performance-Performativity of a ‘Pasivo Mariposa’: Sexual Violence in Rigoberto Gonzalez’s Butterfly Boy (2006).”
Parra, Michael Andrew. University of California, Santa Barbara. “On Transphobia and Generic Indigeneity: Gayzing Mestizos Cruising and Doing Masculinity in John Rechy’s City of Night (1963) and Gil Cuadros’s City of God (1994).”
Moderator: Alvarez Jr., Eddy Francisco. California State University, Fullerton.
At the Crossroads of Memoir and History: Excavating New Mexican Indigenous and Queer Roots and Reckoning with the Hidalguense Abuelito Colonizer
Orona-Cordova, Roberta. California State University, Northridge. “Discovering Ghost Town Cabezon, New Mexico in my search for Indigenous Identity of Abuela Mamalita Cordova (born 1867-1940).”
Gonzalez, Omar. California State University, Northridge. “The Drum Beats Queer: A Two-Spirited Journey for a Poz Tigua-Xicanx.”
Fernandez, Maria Elena. California State University, Northridge. “Waking Up to Whiteness: Abuelito as Patriarchal Colonizer.”
Workshop: Xicanx Ecologies: Tracing Genealogies, Cultivating Interrelational Futurities, and Mapping our Camino through Codex-Making
Gomez-Pelayo, Karla E. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Valencia, John Jairo. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Geronimo, Maritza. University of California, Los Angeles.
The Land Always Remembers: Cultivating our Sacred Bodymemory Truths
Estrada, Olga. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Jotería Drip: Sacred Water as Eco-Erotic Decolonial Conocimiento.”
Romero Jr., Jerry. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Returning the Soul Home: Bodymemory Truths, Brujería, and the Ecologies of Bodily Knowledge.”
Yíñez-Alaniz, Jennifer. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Decolonizing Knowledge Through Conocimiento Transcendente Autohistoria Teoría (CTAT): A Relational Praxis of Maíz, Language, and Identity.”
Garcia, Josie. University of Arizona. “Embodying the creation-resistance within Ethnic Studies.”
Mendez, Christopher. University of Texas, San Antonio. “‘Mi Tierra Firme:’ Barrio Memories as Decolonial Worldmaking in Their Dogs Came with Them and The Madonnas of Echo Park.”
Chicana/o Experiences at Predominately White Institutions and HSI’s
Sanchez, Thomas. University of Nebraska Omaha. “Latino Student Active Engagement on a Predominantly White Campus.”
Paez, Aylin. University of California, San Diego. “Autohistorias y Autorretratos: Lived Experiences of Latina Undergraduates Leading Communities.”
Gonzalez, Lorena. Contra Costa College. “HSI Servingness...La Lucha Sigue!: Semillas Plantadas desde El Plan de Santa Barbara & Beyond.”
Maiz, Iliana. University of California, San Diego. “Making an HSI: LatinX Coalition Building and Participatory Active Research (PAR) Event Creation UCSD LatinX Student-Led Organizations.”
Workshop: Prison Poetics: Storytelling as Critical Resistance
Grill, Diahndra. University of New Mexico & JustWrite.
Sosaya, Aleksander. JustWrite.
Contreras, Carlos. University of New Mexico, JustWrite.
Mediating Latina/o/x Indigeneity: Recovering and Reimagining Indigenous Histories for Latino Storytelling
Aleman, Sonya M, University of Texas, San Antonio. And Delgado Bernal, Dolores. Loyola-Marymount University. “Disney’s National Treasure in Chicanx/Latinx Studies Classrooms: A Tool for Reimagining Pan-American Herstories and Reclaiming Student’s Histories.”
Casteñeda, Mari. University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Evans-Zepeda, Claudia. California State, Fullerton. “Latin History is Indigenous history: A Latina/o/x Critical Communication Theory Analysis of John Leguizamo’s Lessons in Latin History for Morons.”
Reyes, Zazil. University of the Incarnate Word. “Mediated Reactions to Mayan Culture in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
Literature and Librarianship
Martinez, Lillian. University of Texas, Austin. “Queering Schoolhood Conocimientos: Reading Chicana Sapphic Identity (re) Construction, Schooling, and Cultural Knowledge in Young-Adult Fiction.”
Barroso-Ramirez, Essy. San Jose State University. “Exhibiendo Resistencia - Xicana Academic Librarianship.”
Montiel, Linea. University of California, Irvine. “Somatic Resistance in Viramontes’s The Moths.”
Politicas for Liberation: Navigating Political Realities, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Coalition Building
Nevarez, Andrea. San Jose State University.
Peña, Yesenia. San Jose State University.
Campos Lopez, Jennifer. San Jose State University.
Correa, Corina. San Jose State University.
The Yazzie-Martinez Mandate in New Mexico: Educators Creating Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Curriculum
Garay, Rebecca. New Mexico State University.
Lara, Dulcinea. New Mexico State University.
Espinoza, Melissa.New Mexico State University.
Campos, Arturo. Camino Real Middle School.
Torres, Delia. Centennial High School.
Roundtable: Somos revolucionarias ¿Y que?
Guzman, Andrea. Hermanos De UCSC. University of California, Santa Cruz.
Cruz, Halsey. Hermanos De UCSC. University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ramos, Genesis. Hermanos De UCSC. University of California, Santa Cruz.
Carmona, Estrella. Hermanos De UCSC. University of California, Santa Cruz.
Villanueva, Million. Hermanos De UCSC. University of California, Santa Cruz.
Resistance in the Border(ed) Lands with Art, Literature, Feminism, and Community Building
Munoz, Lluvia. Oberlin College. “Borderlandia: The Art and Language of Chicanos as Exemplified in Enrique Chagoya’s Work.”
Ramirez Moreno, Carolina. University of California, San Diego. “The Expansion of the Border Beyond Physicality: Chicanx Identity in Literature, From Pocho (1959) to Gordo (2022).”
Valdez De La Torre, Aurora. San Diego State University. “Fear Embodied: Transforming Temor into Resistance Along the Borderlands.”
Ramirez, Christian. Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. “Lessons from the Archive(s): How Afro-Mexican History Create Community Building in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.”
Home-making Solidarities Through Ethnic Studies: Four Stories
Muñoz, Marissa. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Turtle teachings: Bringing home with you everywhere you go.”
Saldaña, Lilliana Patricia. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Mexican American Studies as calli/ home, community, and movement.”
Epstein, Eliza. & De Santos Quezada, Maria de los Angeles. University of Texas, Austin. ”Whose Home? Our Home! Epistemic Injustice and Resistance in Ethnic Studies.”
Lara, Orlando. University of California, Irvine. “Navigating the Troubled Waters of Accompaniment, Detribalization, and the Struggle for Curricular Justice in Hostile Times.”
From Barrio Hoops to Rez Ball: Drawing on Chicanx and Navajo Ways of Knowing
Carrillo, Juan. Arizona State University.
Alvarez, Eric. Arizona State University.
Long, Charlton. Arizona State University.
Roundtable: Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Voices in the Texas and Arizona Borderlands
Najera, Jennifer. University of California, Riverside.
Salinas, Cristina. University of Texas, Arlington.
Tellez, Michelle. University of Arizona.
Fonseca Chavez, Vanessa. Arizona State University.
(Re)Claiming and Protecting Indigenous Ceremonial Ways
Gonzalez, Lorena. Contra Costa College. “Kurhikuaeri Káuinchekua El Fuego Nuevo: Reconnecting and Reclaiming Purepecha Identity, Ceremony and Teachings of Indigenous Resistance.”
Cruz, Rachel. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Reclaiming the Narrative: Gender, Sexuality, and Music in Pre-Contact Indigenous and Afro-Latine Civilizations.”
Rodriguez Arzate, Dani. University Of California, San Diego. ”The Purepecha In Me: An Investigation on the Extractive Development of the Avocado Industry and Its Effects on the Purepecha People.”
Martinez-Cruz, Paloma. Ohio State University. “From Castaneda to Red Road: The Travels of Chicanx Indigeneity.”
Intergenerational Trauma and Mental Health in Our Communities
Murillo, Rebecca. University of California San Diego. “Navigating Orgullo: The Challenge of Mental Health and Stigma in Chicana/o/x Communities.”
Aranda, Sarah. University of California, San Diego. “Wounds Across Generations: The Impact of Intergenerational Trauma on Families and Marital Dynamics.”
Velasquez, Roberto. Northern New Mexico College. “Fear of Deportation Syndrome in the Trump Era of Mass Deportation: The Psychological Consequences on Undocumented Children, Adults, and Familias.”
Saborio, Ileen. University of California, San Diego. “La Vergüenza de Sufrir; Dismantling Cultural Barriers and Understanding our Relationship With Mental Health.”
Exploration of Chicana Feminist Theory and Spirituality
Herrera, Alyssa. California State University, Los Angeles. “Chicana Wounds- Wounds of Desirability.”
Medina, Jewell. University Of New Mexico. “Llorona Consciousness: Medicine Songs, Art and Oral Traditions of Performance and Resistance.”
Gonzalez, Maria. University of Houston. “After the Apocalypse: Recovering Spirituality in Philosophy with Gloria Anzaldua’s Works.”
Bedoy, Alondra. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Eroticizing Spirituality: Stripping Guadalupe.”
La Cultura Cura: Community, and Education as Healing Praxis
Federico Brummer, Maria Christina. University of Arizona. “Retribalizing, Decolonizalizing M(other)ing, and Healing Historical Trauma: A Xilonen Remembering.”
Argüello de Jesús, Joaquin. University of New Mexico. “Traditional Collective Healing of Acequias y Mercedes Practices: Genizar@ Cultural Praxis: Self-Governance, Collective Leadership, Resolana, Querencia & Mutualismo in Northern New Mexico.”
Berumen, Juan. University of California, Berkeley. “Radical Healing, Consciousness-Raising, and Resistance in Praxis: Reimagining the Classroom as a Site for Liberation.”
Payan, Tommee. California State University, Channel Islands.
Resistance, Resilience, and Transformation: Navigating Tormentor Practices, Intellectual Risk-Taking, and Reclaiming Barrios in Chicana/o/x Education
Sanchez, Stephanie. University of New Mexico. “Chicana/o/x Studies and Intellectual Risk-Taking.”
Gonzalez Cárdenas, Elizabeth. University of New Mexico. “Students Resistance and Resilience: Overcoming Tormentor Practices in the Academy.”
Garcia, Cynthia. University of New Mexico. “Chicana Education as Resistance: Reclaiming Indigeneity, Identity, and Barrios Through Transformative Pedagogies.”
Roundtable: Preserving and reconnecting with Our Cultura: Mexican-American Studies Student Organization at UTSA
Hernández, Marcela. University of Texas, San Antonio.
Chapa, Pearl. University of Texas, San Antonio.
Lopez, Gabriella. University of Texas, San Antonio.
Cervantes, Marco. University of Texas, San Antonio.
Roundtable: Reflections on conocimientos in the borderlands under a new regime: Considering Tejas, Nuevo Mejico, y California
Gonzalez, Deena.
Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. University of California, Los Angeles.
Lopez Gaspar de Alba, Alma. University of California, Los Angeles.
Perez, Emma. University of Arizona Southwest Research Center.
Research and Pedagogies in STEM: Genetics, Health and the Environment
Gonzalez Rivera, Wilfredo. University of California, San Diego. “The Role of Human Genetic Ancestry Variation across Multi-Ethnic Groups to Study Health Disparities.”
Hurtado-Mendez, Karen. University of California, San Diego. “Latinas in STEM: Navigating Cultural, Social, and Academic Barriers.”
Archuleta, Lisa Teresa. Stanford University. “A Borderless Science Classroom: How “Monolingual” Teachers Can Support Translanguaging in Science Classrooms.”
Ortiz, Gabriela. University of California, Riverside. “Silent Waters, Hidden Wounds: Slow Violence and Environmental Injustice.”
Roundtable: MEChA: Past, Present, and Future - Learning and Thriving Together
Medina, Gracie. New Haven Unified School District - JLHS MEChA.
Zavala, Jose. New Haven Unified School District - JLHS MEChA.
Cruz Mendoza, Itzel. New Haven Unified School District - JLHS MEChA.
Franco, Michelle. New Haven Unified School District - JLHS MEChA.
Villegas-Ramirez, Marisa. New Haven Unified School District - JLHS MEChA.
Transnational Global Movements and Diaspora from Michoacan, Oaxaca, Brazil and Central America
Moreno Wilcox, Vanessa. University of Arizona. “Indigenous Foodways and Traditional Food Knowledge in the Aguilillense Diaspora of Northern California.”
Lopez, Kimberle. University of New Mexico. “Indigeneity and the Politics of Passing in Migration Films and Memoir.”
Aparicio Colores, Gerardo. University of California, San Diego. “Understanding and Addressing the Decline of Mixteco Bajo in Oaxaca: A Case Study in San Martín Sabinillo and Santiago Nuxaño.”
Cerqueira, Marco. Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. “The Landless Movement and Erasure of Indigenous Knowledge in Brazil: The Struggle for Reclamation.” (co-author, Rodrigo Rossoni. Universidade Federal da Bahia.)
Xicana Fashion, Pop Culture, Music and Arte Subculture Aesthetics
Avila, Theresa. California State University, Channel Islands. “The State of Xicana/o/x/e Indigenous art and aesthetics in New Mexico.”
Seaver De La Fuente, Taylor. University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley. “Chicana/Latina Fashion: Resisting Colonial Trauma through Embodied Aesthetics.”
Orozco, Olivia. University of California, San Diego. “From Cholas to Contemporary Resistance: ThecEvolution of Chicana Fashion and Identity.”
Espinoza, Melissa. New Mexico State University. ”Punks Y Otros Atravesados*: Punk BorderlandscConsciousness and Ethos.”
Xicano/a Ideological and Social Movement Research Subjects
Mireles, Ernesto. Northern Arizona University. “Flower Battle: A Xicano Epistemology of Confrontation.”
Moreno, Jose G., Northern Arizona University. “The Legacy of Ernesto Bustillos Writings, 1981-2012.”
Covarrubias Cabeza, Julio. Northern Arizona University. “The Mestizo Dilemma.”
Cultivating Chisme Through Love, Solidarity, Trust, and Empowerment in Chicana/Latina Higher Education
Ruvalcaba, Angelica. Texas Woman’s University.
Aguilar, Vanessa. New Mexico State University.
Ayers, Esther. In Solidarity Towards Serenity, LLC.
Escritor del Barrio: Luis Rodriguez’s Vernacular Poetics and Politics. From forthcoming Anthology: The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) A 2 part panel.
Gómez, Jonathan. San Jose State University. “Poetry to Break Stone: Zones of Abandonment, Barrio Youth Struggles, and Luis J. Rodriguez’s Accompañamiento Poetics of Solidarity.”
Terrell, Clinton. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Luis J. Rodríguez’s Always Running and the Political Economy of Gang Memoir: From Multiculturalism to Historical Materialist Mapping of Youth Gang Life.”
Karimi, Robert. Arizona State University. “Testimonio es Atole es Medicina: Reflections on Luis Rodriguez’ Life and Work.”
Moderator : Olguín, Ben. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Red Raza: Luis Rodriguez’s Xicanindio Gnosis and Communist Revolutionary Praxis Panel 2 of 2.
Toscano, Natalia. University of New Mexico. “Red Road Traveller: The Xicanx Humanism of Luis ‘Mixcoatl Itzlacuiloh’ Rodríguez.”
Prado, José. California State University, Dominguez Hills. “Soldier of Change: Barrio Intellectual, the Poetics of Nemachtilli, and the ‘Language of Real Life’ in Luis J. Rodríguez’s Life and Work.”
Moderator: Olguín, Ben. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Towards a Xicanx Communist Synthesis of the Organic Intellectual: Luis J. Rodriguez’s Revolutionary Lumpen/Proletarian Gnosis and Praxis.”
Roundtable: Decolonial Healing and Re-Indigenizing in Chicano/x Communities
Avalos, Natalie. University of Colorado Boulder.
Manzo, Jacqueline. University of Colorado Boulder.
Hernandez Guerrero, Raquel. University of Colorado Boulder.
Danza De Las Americas: Folklorico, Bamba Andean, and Mexica/Concheros
Ramos, Alejandra. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. “Sembrando Flores: Ballet Folklorico in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.”
Gonzalez, Marylinda & Muñoz, Ed A. University of Utah. “Bomba and Baile Folklorico: Construyendo Latinidad in Utah’s Wasatch Front.”
Toscano, Silvia. California State University, Sacramento. “Using an Andean Danza Cosmovison to Map Ancestral Identities: Reconfiguring Introduction to Chicano/Latino Studies through the Use of Personal Choreographies.”
Aguilar, Andres. San Diego State University. “Unpacking La Danza: New Perspectives on la Danza de Concheros.”
Wisdom Of The Land: Grassroots approaches to Environmental Justice
Romero, Eric. New Mexico Highlands University. “Las Cabanuelas: Planning Sustainability using Earth and Water Wisdom.”
Platt, Kamala. Arizona State University, New College. “Calli Ambiental: at Home with Environmental Justice Poetics.”
Solorzano, Citlally. University of California, San Diego. “‘... olita del altamar, dime si algún día tú volverás’: Sonic and Visual Ecologies as Embodied Action for Indigenous Environmentalisms along the U.S.-México Border.”
Garcia, Matthew. Colorado State University. And Bojorquez, April. DesertArtLAB. “Chicanx Landscapes: Land Art, Chicanx Aesthetics, and Environmental Justice.”
Roundtable: This Spiral Called Support: Latina Students and Faculty Discuss Surviving and Thriving in a Community College and Beyond
Arellano, Cathy. American River College.
Hernandez, Michelle. American River College.
Morales-Becerra, Katia. American River College.
Ortega, Estrella. American River College.
Valdez Jimenez, Mariana. American River College.
Roundtable: From Resistance to Regeneration: Dual Enrollment Mexican American Studies and the Rebirth of Ethnic Studies in Arizona
Nacim, Erika. Tucson Unified School District.
Aguilar Buenrostro, Mario A.. Tucson Unified School District.
Federico Brummer, Maria. Tucson Unified School District.
Rivera Cohen, Aracely. Tucson Unified School District.
Roundtable: Rooted in Resilience: Xicana Indigena Traditions of Healing and Empowerment within Mujeres de Maiz
Zepeda, Nadia. Mujeres de Maiz & California State University, Fullerton.
Montes, Felicia ‘Fe’. Mujeres de Maiz & California State University, Long Beach.
Garcia Swiecicki, Atava. Ancestral Apothecary.