Bryan Cantero
Graduate Student Email: bcantero1@g.ucla.edu Cohort 2022 – 2023
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Danny Bonitz
Graduate Student Email: dannybonitz@g.ucla.edu Cohort 2025 – 2026 Danny Bonitz grew up in Sacramento, where he spent his formative days riding his bike along the American River, listening to loud Rock…
Mario Alvarado Cifuentes
Graduate Student Email: mrac@ucla.edu Cohort 2021 – 2022 Mario Alvarado Cifuentes “Mac” is a Ph.D. candidate in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA. Mac was born in Retalhuleu, Guatemala, with…
Celina Martinez
Lecturer Academic Profile Pocho.com “Tia Lencha’s Cocina” (fiction) regular contributor, 2012 – present The Alembic, “Mexican Sadness” (fiction), Providence, RI. Spring, 2009 issue. La Voz, “Eyes Like Mexico” (flash fiction), Syracuse,…
Audrey Harris (Fernández)
Lecturer Dr. Harris Fernández received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2016 in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Her dissertation, De lo más pobre y de lo más lindo: Transnational Borges and…
Alma López Gaspar De Alba
Professor Emeritus Office: 7274 Bunche Hall Email: alma@ucla.edu AlmaLopez.Com “Alma López is one of the most visible Chicana artists active today,” says Art History Prfessor Charlene Villaseñor Black. “She is prominent…
Helen Burgos-Ellis
Professor Emeritus Office: 7276 Bunche Hall Email: helene@ucla.edu Helen Burgos-Ellis, a native of El Salvador, trained as an art historian. Her research interests include pre-Columbian and colonial art, Amerindians (pre-Columbian to…
Richard Verches J.D.
Lecturer As the Executive Director of the Center for a Competitive Workforce (Center), Richard Verches brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, and compassion to his work. His many careers in…
Martha Ramirez-Oropeza
Continuing Lecturer martharamirezoropeza.com Martha Ramírez-Oropeza is a mural painter, a performer in popular theater, and a researcher/lecturer of the Nahuatl pre-Hispanic codices of Mexico. She was the vice-director of the…
Cristina Frias
Continuing Lecturer Office: 7274 Bunche Hall Email: frias2014@g.ucla.edu christinafrias.com Cristina Frías is an award-winning Latina actor, writer, director and artivista recently recognized as a LATINA OF INFLUENCE by Hispanic Lifestyle. Her work spans…