This week I’m privileged to share a vulnerable and intimate episode with our special guest, Dra. Diane Nevarez, who shares her experience being a Chicana PhD lecturer. Tune in to this episode to learn about what it’s like: teaching as a contingent professor with no insurance, while on government assistance, and while unable to afford rent in California, being a Chicana mother-scholar resisting the narrative that you can’t be a mom in academia, finding the silver linings in higher ed, like identifying all the good people and having access to spaces our parents didn’t have, and what happens when you find out you’re being undervalued in academia. 

To connect with and support Dr. Nevarez, you can follow her via chicana_di_aretes on Instagram and while you’re at it, get yourself a pair of beautiful handmade earrings.

To read the article she wrote for the LA Times, go here. 

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