Graduate Student Cohort 2019-2020 Email: lvilchiszarate@ucla.edu PhD Candidate, UCLA Department of Chicana/o & Central American Studies ; Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy; Community Organizer, Union de…
Graduate Student Executive Director and Artist Cohort 2012-2013 Email: carlosnrogel@ucla.edu Rogel is an interdisciplinary media/mural artist, acting executive director at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), and an alumni…
Graduate Student Cohort 2016-2017 Academia Profile Gabriela Rodriguez-Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in Chicana/o Studies & Central American Studies at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) with a specialization in…
Graduate Student Cohort 2022-2023 Email: jdpineda@ucla.edu Janel’s website Janel Pineda is a Salvadoran poet, educator, and scholar of U.S. Central American Literature. Her research conceptualizes contemporary global Salvadoran poetics and investigates…
Graduate Student Cohort 2021-2022 Email: gperez2031@ucla.edu Gabby was born in Oceanside, California and grew up 14 miles away in Encinitas. The only child of a single mother from Tepatlaxco, Puebla, Gabby…
Graduate Student Cohort 2019-2020 Kevin Kandamby is a MexiLankan (Mexican and Sri Lankan) first-generation child of immigrants who was born and raised in Southern California. Kevin’s primary research interest explores…
Graduate Student Cohort 2019-2020 Email: hirugami@ucla.edu curatorlove.com/hirugami Hirugami is a first-generation transnational Mexican Japanese immigrant, formerly undocumented. She holds an MA in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, in…
Graduate Student Karla’s LinkedIn Profile Cohort 2023 – 2024 Karla Hernandez is a PhD student in Chicano and Central American Studies at UCLA. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in…
Graduate Student Cohort 2024 – 2025 Corina Gonzalez (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies. As a first-generation college…
Graduate Student Linkedin Cohort 2024 – 2025 “Before Brown v. Board of Education: Paul J. McCormick, the Mendez v. Westminster Decision, and its Religious-Social Context.” U.S. Catholic Historian, Fall 2023. USCH_Fall2023_Castro…