CMMU Faculty

Leslie A Lopez
  • Pronouns she/they
  • Title
    • Continuing Lecturer, PhD Anthropology
    • Director, Corre la Voz
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Oakes College
    • Community Studies Program
    • Education Department
  • Affiliations Latin American & Latino Studies, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
  • Phone
    831-459-4463
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Oakes College Academic Building, 218#
    • Education Department, McHenry 0266, El Sol Lab
  • Mail Stop Oakes College
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High Street
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Courses Oakes Core: Communicating Diversity for a Just Society; Winter Core (College One); CMMU 10: Intro to Community Activism; OAKS/EDU 151A/B: Community Literacies (Seminar & Field Study, Corre la Voz); Oakes Oral History Project; OAKS/LALS 128: Latino/as in the US Media; OAKS/LALS 80D: Political Change in Mexico; OAKS 153: Community Mapping (Participatory asset mapping for problem-solving)

Summary of Expertise

Community-based and collaborative program design, development, and project management. Pedagogies and research techniques to co-produce community belonging and useful knowledge with diverse participants, on campus and off. Multi-modal tools (writing, drama, field research, photography, video, audio). Focus areas: Political culture, political economy; systems analysis and strategy; education; media; housing and health; immigration. Critical history of Mexico and US.