Olga Estrada
Doctoral Teaching Assistant II, COEHD Race,Ethnicity, Gendersex
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Olga Estrada (They/She) is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Culture, Literacy, and Language program at UTSA. She is currently a Democratizing Social Justice fellow through the Andrew W. Mellon grant. As part of the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality, she teaches introductory courses in women, gender, and sexuality studies. As an Anzaldúan theorist, her research interest is centered on decolonial Chicana feminist theory and epistemology. Her current research involves critical autoethnography to explore the experience of being a Queer Chicana/x in higher education. She has served as a summer graduate research assistant for the Mexican American Studies Teachers’ Academy for three consecutive years. She is currently an active board member of the Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship(AJAAS) and serves on the committee as a scholarship liaison.
