Description
Jennifer R. Nájera is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Riverside. Nájera's research interests lie at the intersections of race, immigration, and education.
She is the author of The Borderlands of Race: Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town (University of Texas Press, 2015). Her most recent book, Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education (Duke University Press, 2024), tells the stories of undocumented young people who become community advocates and activists during college. Nájera is also co-Pl on the Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Organizing in the Borderlands oral history project. Nájera's research has been published in journals such as Chicana/Latina Studies, The Oral History Review, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. She has also written about immigration for The LA Times.
REGSS Speaker Series - Dr. Jennifer R. Nájera presents Learning to Lead
Location
REGSS Community Room, Durango Building (DB 3.202), Downtown Campus
Category:
Campus Events
Contact:
The Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
210-458-6277
regss@utsa.edu
