Today, I leverage my career experience and subject matter(s) expertise in and outside the classroom. I serve as the Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Ventura College and invite local readers to take one of my course.
I have 15 years in project management, team management, curriculum management, and program management, in addition to designing and scaling programs. I am a nine time research grant recipient by institutions funding research on diversity and belonging in the U.S. Academically trained in interdisciplinary knowledge production, system thinking, research design, statistics, survey development, mixed-method data collection, assessment and analytics, and various teaching pedagogies that intersect with equity, inclusion, and diverse learners.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in their landmark department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
