Hello,
Please see the attached flyer and message below on behalf of Juan Cantu and the Department
of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Good Afternoon,
Please join us as Dr. Jennifer R. Nájera presents Learning to Lead
📍 DB 3.202 - REGSS Community Room
📅 Wednesday, April 24th
🕛 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Dr. Nájera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University
of California, Riverside. Her research explores the intersections of race, immigration,
and education.She is the author of The Borderlands of Race: Mexican Segregation in a South
Texas Town and her latest book, Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing
Education (Duke University Press, 2024), highlights the stories of undocumented youth who
emerge as community advocates during college.
Dr. Nájera is also co-PI of the Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Organizing in the Borderlands
oral history project. Her work has appeared in journals such as Chicana/Latina Studies,
The Oral History Review, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and she has contributed
to The LA Times on issues related to immigration.
We hope to see you there!
Best regards,
Juan Cantu
Sr. Administrative Associate
Learner | Achiever | Intellection | Input | Includer
The Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The University of Texas at San Antonio
College of Education and Human Development
501 W. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., Durango Building 3.202.
San Antonio, Texas 78207
P: 210.458.6277
E: juan.cantu3@utsa.edu<mailto:juan.cantu3@utsa.edu>