Lilliana Saldaña, Ph.D.

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Lilliana Saldaña, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, Ph.D. is from Yanawana, occupied territory known as San Antonio, Texas, and is an Associate Professor of MAS at UTSA where she also serves as program coordinator for the program. Saldaña’s research draws from Chicana/x/o Studies methodologies, Chicana feminist thought, and decolonial studies to examine teacher identity and consciousness, epistemic struggles in education, and colonial/decolonial schooling practices. She’s published in nationally recognized journals, including Latinos & Education, Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, and Association of Mexican American Educators Journal. She is co-editor of Latinas and the Politics of Urban Space  (2020) with Sharon Navarro and Entre el Sur y el Norte: Decolonizing education through critical readings of Chicana/x/o music (forthcoming) with Marco Cervantes, and is working on an edited volume with Christopher Carmona that documents the historic struggle for MAS in K-12 schools in Texas. As a public intellectual and local scholar, Saldaña works closely with various organizations including the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute. She is also actively involved in statewide mobilizing efforts to implement MAS in K-12 schools and is co-director of the MAS Teachers' Academy, a community-powered summer institute that supports teachers in MAS pedagogy and curriculum development.