Education

2006 Ph.D., Culture, Literacy, and Language, University of Texas at San Antonio

2001 M.A., Bicultural Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio

1995 B.A., Political Science, Amherst College

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Chican@-Latina@ Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Transformative Epistemologies and Pedagogies, Transnational Feminisms and Activism, Food Studies, Anzaldúan Studies, Reproductive Justice

Academic Positions

2014-Present Lecturer, Eastern Washington University

Chicano Education Program and Race and Culture Studies Program

2008–2014 Assistant Professor, Oregon State University

Department of Ethnic Studies

2009-2014 Affiliate Faculty of Women Studies

2010-2014 Affiliate Faculty of Contemporary Hispanic Studies

2010-2014 University Honors College Faculty

2012-2014 Food in Culture and Social Justice

2013-2014 Environmental Arts and Humanities

2006-2008 Instructor, University of Texas at San Antonio

Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies and History Department

fellowships, awards, and GRANTS

2014 Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention

2014 Faculty Release Time Grant, Research Office, Oregon State University

2013 Summer Research Write-up Grant, School of Language, Culture, and Society, $5,000

2011-2012 Center for the Humanities Fellowship. Oregon State University.

Summer Research Write-Up Grant, School of Language, Culture, and Society, $5,000 (Declined)

2011 Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity (URISC), Faculty Project Advisor. Guanaco Immigrant Journeys to the U.S. (Melinda Reyes, student) $500.

Extended Campus Course Development Grant, ES 212 Survey of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, $2,500

2010 L.L. Stewart Faculty Development Award, $2,200

Extended Campus Course Development Grant, ES 411 Chicanas/os in/on Film, $3,500
Frederick A. Cervantes Graduate Student Premio, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, University of Texas, San Antonio

2003-2005 Hispanic Leadership Program in Agriculture and Natural Resources Fellowship

(HLPANR), Funded by USDA, University of Texas, San Antonio

Graduate Student Small Grant for Research, University of Texas, San Antonio, College

of Education and Human Development

Title VII Fellowship, University of Texas, San Antonio
Johnson Fellowship, Amherst College
- Wilson Scholar of Class of 1995, Amherst College

HONORS

Nominee for Outstanding Faculty, MEChA and MASA Noche de Gala, Oregon State University, 2014.

Nominee for Vice Provost Strategic Impact Award, Oregon State University, 2011.

Publications

Books

Forgetting Tex-Mex: Food Representations in San Antonio’s Culinary Borderlands. In preparation for

submission to academic presses.

Nunca en sueños: A Life History of María Alanis Ruiz. Research phase.

Book Chapters

Queering the Chili Queens: Culinary Citizenship through Food Consciousness in the

New Borderlands. In Latin@s’ Presence in the Food Industry: Changing How We Think about Food, eds. Meredith E. Abarca and Consuelo C. Salas. University of Arkansas Press.

Vélez Salas, C. M., Schouten, B., Cárdenas, N., & Bayley, R. Puerto Rican Spanish in San

Antonio, Texas: A Case of null pronouns. In New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches, eds. Michael D. Picone & Catherine E. Davies. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 696-714.

Sin Fronteras: An Oral History of a Chicana Activist in Oregon during the Chicano

Movement. In The Chicano Movement: Perspectives From the Twenty-First Century, ed. Mario T. García. New York: Routledge. 242-259.

(Forthcoming). Reprint in We Are Aztlán: Chicana/o and Indigenous Communities in the Great

Lakes and Pacific Northwest, ed. Jerry Garcia. Pullman: Washington State University Press.

Food Journeys in Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation and Woman Hollering

Creek. In Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food: Postnational Appetites, eds. Nieves

Pascual Soler and Meredith E. Abarca. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 61-75.

Bayley, R., Cárdenas, N., Treviño Schouten, B., & Vélez Salas, C. M. Spanish Dialect

Contact in San Antonio, Texas: An Exploratory Study. In Selected Proceedings of the 2010

Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, eds. Kimberly Geeslin and Manuel Díaz-Campos. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 48-60. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/14/paper2655.pdf

Manuscript in Submission

“Un Poco de México”: Dis-Membering Tex-Mex Food. Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies.

Lotería as Borderlands Pedagogy: Using Popular Culture for Transformative Social Justice. Journal of

Equity and Excellence in Education.

Manuscript in Preparation

Adopting Chicana Motherhood: Reconceptualizing Mothering and Motherhood. Chicana/Latina

Studies: The Journal of MALCS.

Complicating the U.S. Food Movement: Viramontes’s Spiritual Activism in Under the Feet of Jesus.

MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

Book Reviews

A Life on Hold: Living with Schizophrenia by J. Méndez-Negrete in Chicana/Latina Studies: The

Journal of MALCS.

Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon by G. A. May in Oregon Historical

Quarterly, 113(4), 598-600.

Back cover review of Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by J. Méndez-Negrete in Journal

of Latinos and Education, 4(1), 65-8.

Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities by M. Waters in

Educators of Urban Minorities, 2(2), 133-35.

Public Scholarship/Community Engagement

Faces of Eastern

The exhibit explored selfie images and reflection writings by students enrolled in the Race, Power, and Privilege course at EWU. The exhibit shows how social and historical racial categories have real consequences in the life of students in both explicit and subtle ways. The goal of the exhibit was to identify ways the university can address diversity and inclusivity, the context a majority of students documented.

Chicana/o Oral History in the Pacific Northwest

This project focuses on the collection of stories and experiences of Chicanas/os in the Pacific Northwest, including farmworkers and Chicano Movement organizers, and engages in Chicana feminist praxis. Since 2012, a rotating class of undergraduates have conducted 12 interviews, transcribed, and produced a multimedia product using digitized primary archival materials. In partnership with Archivist and Librarians, the site will be accessible to a wide audience including scholars and the community.

Academic presentations

Invited

2015 Queering the Chili Queens: Culinary Citizenship through Food Consciousness in the New Borderlands. Eastern Washington University. Contemporary Feminist Research Symposium.

2014 Queering the Chili Queens: Culinary Citizenship through Food Consciousness. Portland State University. Si Se Pudo Week.

2012 Co-panelist. Preserving Our Histories: Struggling for Educational Equity and Resisting the Attack on Ethnic Studies. Oregon Students of Color Conference, Oregon State University.

2009 (Unable to attend.) Women’s History Month. University of Texas at San Antonio

2009 Food in the Americas course. Lewis and Clark College. Instructor Marie Sarita Gaytan. February

2007 Epistemologies and Geographies of the Panza, Kitchen, and Home: Cooking as a Chicana

Third Space Performative Act. Tejidas: A Chicana/Latina Lecture Series. University of Texas at San Antonio

2003 Family Cultural Capital Limited: Cultural Reproduction in Mexican American Parental Involvement. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Institute and Conference, Student Plenary, San Antonio, TX

International Presentations

Organizer, Pacific Northwest Borderlands. El Mundo Zurdo Conference. University of Texas

at Austin.

Nepantlera Mentoring: Anzaldúan Mentoring Practices in the Academy. El Mundo Zurdo

Conference, San Antonio, TX.

2010 Journey of a Nepantlera: Engaging Mestiza Consciousness as a Migrant Tejana Academic in the Pacific Northwest. El Mundo Zurdo Conference, San Antonio, TX.

National Presentations

2016 Complicating the U.S. Food Movement: Viramontes’s Spiritual Activism in Under the Feet of

Jesus. American Studies Association, Denver, CO.

2016 (Re)Mapping Mexican Restaurants: Spatial Poetics of Food in San Antonio. National

Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Denver, CO.

2015 Lotería as Borderlands Pedagogy: Using Popular Culture for Transformative Society Justice.

Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Institute. Albuquerque, NM.

2015 Recipes of the Mexican Revolution or How “Like Water for Chocolate” undermined Tex‐Mex

Food Hegemony. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Francisco, CA.

2015 Lotería as Liberatory Pedagogy: Using Popular Culture for Transformative Society Justice.

International Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference. Airway Heights, WA

2014 Lotería as Liberatory Pedagogy: Using Popular Culture for Transformative Social Justice.

National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Salt Lake City, UT

A Chicana Adoptive Mother’s Narrative: Reconceptualizing Mothering and Motherhood.

Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Institute. Columbus, OH.

2013 Roundtable: Politics of Ethnic Identity: Pedagogical Conocimientos in the Classroom. National

Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Antonio, TX.

2012 Roundtable. Reproductive Justice in Chicana/Latina Communities: A Service-Learning Course. National Women’s Studies Association Conference. Oakland, CA.

2012 Solo en Sueños: Chicana Activism in Oregon during the Chicano Movement. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Institute. Santa Barbara, CA

2012 Sin Fronteras: Chicana Activism in Oregon during the Chicana/o Movement. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Chicago, IL

2011 Mixing Food Studies and Ethnic Studies: A Recipe for Ethnic Food Pedagogy and Activism. Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference, San Antonio, TX

2010 (Un)Palatable Food Discourses: Decolonial Representations of Chicana/o Identity in Literature. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Seattle, WA

2007 Force-Fed Stereotypes: Tex-Mex Food Discourse in the Media. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, San José, CA

2006 From Tamales to the Panza and the Kitchen: Cooking a Chicana Feminist Theatrical Performative Space. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Guadalajara, México

Reclaiming the Epiphany: Puerto Rican and Mexican American Foodways on Three Kings

Day. Association for the Study of Food and Society/Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Association Joint Conference, Portland, OR

2004 Family Cultural Capital Limited: Cultural Reproduction in Mexican American Parental Involvement. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA

2004 (Un)Palatable Food Discourse in Chicano literature: Literary Images and Representations of Identity. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Albuquerque, NM

2003 Differential Experiences of College Related-Stress for Minority and Majority Students.

National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA

Regional Presentations

2014 Food Journeys in Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation and Woman Hollering Creek, Food Representations in Literature, Film and the other Arts, University of Texas, San Antonio

2010 Food, Place, Identity, and Memory in Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek. Food Representations in Literature, Film and the other Arts, University of Texas, San Antonio

2010 Food, Place, and Identity in John Phillip Santos’ Memoir. Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference, Albuquerque, NM

2009 Tacolandia: The Reconquest of Tex-Mex Cuisine. Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference, Albuquerque, NM

2007 From Palate to Palette: An Examination of Two Chicana/o Artists, Carmen Lomas Garza and Rolando Briseño. Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference, Albuquerque, NM

From Tamales to the Panza and the Kitchen: Cooking a Chicana Feminist Theatrical

Performative Space. Food Representations in Literature, Film and the other Arts, University of Texas, San Antonio

2006 Geographies of Home, Panza, and the Kitchen: Cooking a Chicana Feminist Theatrical Performative Space. Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conferences, Albuquerque, NM

2006 “But I CAN do all those things because I AM just a woman”: Empowering Young Latinas

through Leadership Development, a case study in San Antonio, Texas. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Institute, Berkeley, CA

2005 Eating Symbols and Myths: Mexican Food Discourse in the Media. Southwest/Texas Popular

Culture and American Culture Associations Conferences, Albuquerque, NM

The Bitter Food of the Aztecs: Food Colonialism during the Spanish Conquest. American

Studies Association of Texas, San Antonio, TX

2004 Eating Symbols and Myths: Mexican Food Discourse in the Media. Tejas Foco of the National

Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Edinburg, TX

2004 Feeding their art: Carmen Lomas Garza and Rolando Briseño. Food Representations in Literature, Film and the other Arts, University of Texas, San Antonio

2003 Co-presented with Vélez Salas, C. M., and Schouten Treviño, B. Null Pronoun Variation in Puerto Rican Spanish Narratives in San Antonio, Texas. Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Edinburg, TX

2002 The Politics of Grant Distribution in the City’s Arts in the Community Program. Tejas Foco of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Antonio, TX

COURSES TAUGHT

Eastern Washington University, 2014-Present

Introduction to Chican@ Culture (CHST 101)

Chican@ History (CHST 218)

Survey of Chican@ Literature (CHST 300)

Food and Identity (CHST 396)

Introduction to the Study of Race and Culture (RCST 101)

Race, Privilege, and Power (RCST 202)

Researching Race and Culture (RCST 330)

Oregon State University, 2008-2014

Introduction to Ethnic Studies (ES 101) (online)

Survey of Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies II (ES 212) (online)

Contemporary Latino/a Culture and Issues (ES 213)

Food and Identity: Eating at the Border (ES 499/599)

Chicana/o Testimonios: Theory and Method (ES 499/599)

Chicana Feminisms: This Bridge called Academia (ES 499/599)

Chicanos/as in/on Film (ES 411) (online)

Ethnicity in Film (ES 452) (online)

Internship Seminar (ES 455)

Chicana/Latina Reproductive Justice in Service Learning (ES 499/599) (team-taught)

Latin@ Activists (ES 499/599) (team-taught)

University of Texas, San Antonio, 2004-2008

Latino Cultural Expressions (BBL)

Bilingual Families, Communities, and Schools (BBL)

Mexican American Culture (BBL)

Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in a Pluralistic Society (BBL)

Introduction to Women and Gender Studies (WGS)

Graduate Student committees

Elena Valdez-Chavarria. MA. Contemporary Hispanic Studies. Minor Professor. Completed Spring

2014

Rebecca Arce. MPP. Committee Member. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2014

Breann Mudrick. MA. Contemporary Hispanic Studies. Major Professor. Completed Spring 2013.

(Accepted to San Diego State University-Claremont Graduate University Joint PhD in

Education)

Jaya Conser Lapham. Food in Culture and Social Justice Graduate Certificate.

Mariana Zaragoza. MAIS. Major Professor. Completed Spring 2013. (Accepted to UTSA PhD in

Culture, Literacy, and Language)

Jeanna Ramos. MAIS. Major Professor. Completed Spring 2013. (Accepted job at USFS)

Rocio Petersen. MA Nutrition. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2013.

Amanda Valora. MA Applied Anthropology. Minor Professor. Completed Fall 2012.

Christopher Lenn. MA Applied Ethics. Graduate Committee Representative. Completed Spring 2012

Michelle Ofelt. MA Contemporary Hispanic Studies. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2012

Emanuel Magaña. MA CSSA. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2012

Erin Dubyak. MAIS. Graduate Committee Representative. Completed Spring 2012

Kim Gratz. MA English. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2012

Colin R. Foster. MA Contemporary Hispanic Studies. Minor Professor. Completed Summer 2011.

Andrea Doyle. MAIS. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2011.

Shannon Quihuiz. MA CCSA. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2011.

Grace Grinager. MA Applied Anthropology. Minor Professor. Completed 2011.

Kushlani de Soyza. MFA. Committee Member. Completed 2010.

Ariel Storch. MA Contemporary Hispanic Studies. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2010.

Michael Woods. MA Contemporary Hispanic Studies. Minor Professor. Completed Spring 2010.

UNDERGraduate Student committees

Jessica Ochoa. McNair Scholar. Latina Mothers’ Perceptions of Childhood Obesity in Yakima, WA.

Completed Spring 2016. (Accepted to EWU Masters in Public Health)

Amanda Kraus. Honors Thesis. Unsent Messages and Undelivered Mail: Self-Refection Through

Correspondence. Major Professor. Completed Fall 2010.

Jessica Newgard. Honors Thesis. The Creation of a Bilingual Children’s Book to Promote

Breastfeeding to Acculturating Latinos. Committee member. Completed Winter 2013.

Student Internship Supervision

Agustin Vega-Peters. Casa Latinas Unidos de Benton County. Corvallis, OR

Jessie Leach. Strengthening Community College to University Pipeline.

Zandro Lerma. Partnership for Safety and Justice.

Andrea Gutierrez. Community Outreach.

Melissa Rico. Arkansas.

Stephanie Ryan. OSO, Fort Hood, TX

Juan León. CAMP. Corvallis, OR

Romeo Lopez-Gonzalez. Jobs With Justice. Portland, OR

Emanuel Magaña. Corvallis Boys and Girls Club. Corvallis, OR

Melissa Penwell. Boys and Girls Club. Greenwich Village, CN

MEDIA Productions

Directed and produced video A Tribute to Arcadia Lopez, utilizing interviews with academicians and

community, church, and school leaders to document Lopez’s commitment to bilingual education. Namesake of $750,000 endowed scholarship for College of Education and Human Development. University of Texas, San Antonio. October 2007.

Media Coverage

Kafka, Stacey. 2013. Latino Groups Celebrate Heritage Month. KEZI.com

http://www.kezi.com/latino-groups-celebrate-heritage-month/

Villarreal, Michelle. 2013. How South Texans eat contributes to area’s high rate of diabetes. Corpus

Christi Caller-Times, September 8. http://www.tapmecontest.org/entries/assets/AAA_1_CorpusChristi_CostofDiabetes14.pdf

Shingle, Mike. 2011. Looking at Oregon State’s everyday leaders, Part III. The Daily Barometer. May 5. http://www.dailybarometer.com/looking-at-oregon-state-s-everyday-leaders-part-iii/article_8bd12f48-13ea-587f-8047-a061d7948185.html

Gutierrez, Yadira. 2010. Protestors rally against Arizona immigration laws. The Daily Barometer. May 13.

Martinez, Amalia. 2009. Being Latino/a Voices Project. Promise Internship.

Morales, Constanza. 2007. “Herencia hispana se cocina, disfruta y celebra en la mesa.” Semanario La

Estrella. September 14.

Higdon, Barbara A. 1997. “Moms nurture love of reading, book discussions.” San Antonio Express-

News. October 6.

TRAVEL AND RESEARCH PROJECTS

Externship at Traditional Mexican Cooking School with Maria Laura Ricaud. San Miguel de Allende,

Guanajuato, México. June 17 – July 15, 2005. For two weeks, I prepared ingredients, made food purchases, translated recipes, and answered electronic correspondence at the Traditional Mexican Cooking School. http://www.traditionalmexicancooking.com.mx

Smithsonian Institute on the Interpretation and Representation of Latino Cultures, Smithsonian

Institution. Washington, D.C., June 18 – July 17, 2004

Puerto Rico, the Bitter and the Sweet: Puerto Rico, Sugar, and Caribbean History. Instructors: Marion

Nestle and Sidney Mintz, New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, International study of food and nutrition, January 4-16, 2004. For the intensive graduate study program, I conducted field research and prepared a comparative research project on Three Kings Day foods.

professional development

Newberry Library Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies, Chicago, IL, October 2014.

Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, “Colonial Complexes: Law,

Violence and Knowledge,” Tepoztlán, Mexico, July 27-August 3, 2011

Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons Summer School,

Tarragona, Spain. 2010

professional service

Departmental Service

Guest Lecture, Chicana Feminist Thought, Elisa Facio, Instructor, Winter 2016

Public performance of The Panza Monologues. ES 499/599 Chicana Feminisms. 2010, 2013

Native American Studies Search Committee, School of Language, Culture, and Society. 2011-2012.

Chair, Peer Teaching Evaluation Committee. Department of Ethnic Studies. 2009

Guest Lecture. Chicana/o Art, ES 101 Intro to Ethnic Studies, Jun Xing, Instructor. October 2008

Culture, Literacy, and Language Student Leadership Forum, UTSA, 2004-2005

College Service

Commencement Marshal, 2011, 2012, 2013.

Latino/a Studies Search Committee, School of Language, Culture, and Society. 2010-2011.

Transitional Director Search Committee, School of Language, Culture, and Society. June 2010

Curriculum Proposal Liaison. MA Contemporary Hispanic Studies. Archaeology. 2010

Faculty Senator, College of Liberal Arts, 2010-2011.

Moving Diversity Forward Committee, CLA, January 2010

University Service

Panel Chair, Women’s Activism, Colloquium on Mexico, Eastern Washington University, Winter 2016

Faculty Co-Advisor, MEChA, Eastern Washington University, 2016-Present

Faculty Advisor, Muxersitas Nopaleras, Eastern Washington University, 2015-Present

Member, Women’s Studies Center Strategic Plan, Eastern Washington University, Winter 2016

Mentor, Living and Learning, Eastern Washington University, Winter 2015.

Faculty Advisor, Ethnic Studies Student Organization. Fall 2013-2014

Advisory Board, Women’s Center, Oregon State University, Fall 2012-2014

Co-Organized the CL@SE Documentary Film Series, Spring 2014.

Faculty Advisor, Reproductive Justice Club, Fall 2012-2014.

Panelist, START Bilingüe. Summer 2012.

Guest Lecture. SPAN Learning Community. Tobin Hansen, Instructor, Oregon State University,

Spring 2012

Co-host of A Crushing Love: Chicanas, motherhood, and activism. Woman Citizen Film Series, Spring

2012

Peer Teaching Evaluation, Winter 2012

Guest Speaker, Latina/o Identity Development and Consciousness. CAMP Scholar Interns (CSI).

Winter 2012.

¡Sí Se Pudo! Latina/o Graduation Committee Member, Winter 2012-Spring 2012

Service Learning Symposium Committee Member, Fall 2011-Winter 2012.

Co-organized book talk, Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon. Fall 2011.

Faculty Advisor, Baila con Mexico, Fall 2011-2014.

Writing Intensive Curriculum Faculty Seminar, Fall 2011

Committee Member, Sex Trafficking Conference. Winter 2012.

Panelist, Instructor Andrea Doyle. WS Body Politics and (mis)conceptions of motherhood. Fall 2011

Centro Cultural César Chávez Building Committee Member, March 2011

Welcome, MEChA Regional Conference. February 2011.

Guest Lecture, WS Systems of Oppression in Women’s Lives, Susan Shaw, Instructor. Fall 2010.

Panelist, Promise Internship Research. June 2010

Panelist, Difference, Power, and Discrimination Faculty Seminar, June 2010

Panelist, Food and Culture Initiative Mini Symposium, May 2010

Guest Lecture, (Il)legal Salsa, Crop and Soil Science, James Cassidy, Instructor. May 2010

Guest Lecture, Subaltern Voices in the Kitchen, Learning Communities Sustento Course, Juan Trujillo

and Loren Chavarria-Brechtel, Instructors, May 2010

Guest Lecture, Sandra Cisneros, WS International Women. Mehra Shirazi, Instructor. April 2010

Panelist, Social Justice in Action. Intersecting Identities Conference. February 2010.

Advisory Board Member, Center for Latino/a Studies and Engagement (CL@SE), 2010-2014

Speaker, Machismo y Feminismo Coloquio. Transgender Awareness Week. November 2009

Guest Lecture, Real Women Have Curves, WS Global Women in Film, Mehra Shirazi, Instructor.

November 2009

Conexiones Orientation Speaker. Demystifying the first-year college experience for Chicana/o

students. September 2009.

Participant, Ethics of Diversity Course, Professor Lani Roberts, August 2009

Panelist, Ethics of Diversity Course, Professor Lani Roberts, August 2009

Faculty Seminar, Difference, Power, and Discrimination, June 2009

Panel, Superwomen, OSU, March 2009

Keynote Speaker, Meso American Student Association Embracing our Roots Gala, OSU, March 2009

Chicana Feminism Fair, OSU, February 2009

Member, Association of Faculty for the Advancement of People of Color, OSU, 2008-2014

Member, Food in Culture and Social Justice Program, OSU, 2009-2014

Faculty Advisor, MEChA, OSU, 2008-2014

Faculty Advisor, César Chávez Cultural Center, OSU, 2008-2014

Women’s History Month Committee Member, UTSA, 2006, 2007

Human Research/Institutional Review Board Committee Member, UTSA, 2005

Organizer/Moderator, Chicana Activism in San Antonio. Women’s History Month, UTSA, 2004

Learning Communities Essay Contest Committee Member, UTSA, November 2003

Professional Service

Reader for Cervantes Premio. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)

Conference, 2013.

Proposal Reader, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Conference, 2012

Conference Committee Chair, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Pacific

Northwest Regional Conference, 2010

Editorial Review Board, Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio

Social, 2009

Northwest Association for Latin@/Latin American Thought (NALAT), 2009

Reviewer, Food and Foodways Journal, Journal of Latinos and Education, Hypatia and

Chicana/Latina Studies

Reviewer, American Educational Research Association (AERA). Committee on Scholars and

Advocates for Gender Equity (SAGE); Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education. San Francisco, CA, 2006

Reviewer, American Educational Research Association (AERA). SIG, Family, School Partnerships;

Division Social Context of Education; and SIG Hispanic Research. Montreal, Canada, 2004

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ACTIVISM

Presenter, Chican@ Lotería, MEChA Izakalli Calmecac Student Conference, Eastern Washington

University, 2015

Presenter, Chican@ Lotería, César E. Chávez Leadership Conference, Western Oregon University,

2014

Presenter, Latin@ Leaders, United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, Chicago, IL, 2014

Organizer, Día de los Niños Celebration, Lincoln Elementary School. 2012

Developed and Lead Girl Scouts Troop under Hispanic Initiative. 2012

Speaker, Lincoln Gardening Club. 2012

Committee Member, Bates Hall Child Development Center Policy Council. 20009-2010

Facilitator, Crossroads International Film Festival. 2010.

Board of Directors, Hispanas Unidas, Treasurer 2003-2004, Chair 2004-2005. For the six-year

curriculum, I developed the theoretical framework and language unit lessons for the Escuelitas

project, an after-school leadership program for Latina girls. As part of the HLPANR, I developed the Alameda Project, a snack curriculum component, with a framework of food awareness, health promotion, and disease prevention for teenage Latinas.

Consultant, Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, TX, 2003

Panelist, Amherst College, Chicana/o Caucus 10^th Anniversary, Amherst, MA, October 2002

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Leadership Institute 2002

City of San Antonio, Leadership Development Program 2001

Professional memberships

National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)

Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)

Latina/o Studies Association (LSA)

American Studies Association (ASA)

Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)

National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)

Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (SSGA)

Southwest/Texas Popular and American Cultures Association (SWTPCA/ACA)