Jennifer R. Nájera

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. An anthropologist by training, I draw from multiple methodologies in my research on immigration, education, and race in Mexican / Chicanx communities in the U.S. My first book is a historical ethnography about Mexican segregation in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. My latest book, Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education tells the stories of young undocumented people who become community advocates and activists in college. My research has been published in Chicana/Latina Studies, The Oral History Review, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and I have also written about immigration for The LA Times.