In this episode, I talk to Cristy Moran (she/ ella), a librarian, educator, instructional designer, and information literacy specialist who has worked in libraries and education for over 15 years. She currently serves as the Adult Library Services Senior Consultant at the Colorado State Library.

En este episodio, Samuel y Alexa conversan sobre las experiencias de hablar y estudiar español en diferentes regiones de Texas.

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Nolan Cabrera, an award-winning scholar and nationally recognized expert in the areas of racism/anti-racism on college campuses, whiteness, and ethnic studies. He is currently a Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona.

In this episode, I talk to Dra. Lillian Gorman, professor at University of Arizona about her life growing up in New Mexico and her jouney through higher education. We also discussed her upcoming book titled, Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identity in Northern New Mexico (2024).

In this episode, I talk to law Professor and author, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández. García Hernández is the author of Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants (2019), Crimmigration Law (2015), and his most recent book, Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” published in 2024

In this episode, I talk to Dr. María Herrera-Sobek about her long career and pioneering work on Chicana/o Studies and her busy life as a retired academic.

In this episode, I talk to Ruben Espinosa. Espinosa is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (2021), Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare’s England (2011), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (2014). He is currently at work on his next monograph, Shakespeare on the Border: Language, Legitimacy and La Frontera.

Im the episode, I talk to Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq. She is an assistant professor of professional and technical writing at Virginia Tech who focuses on empowerment, social justice, Indigenous advocacy, and equitable research practices. She is an Iñupiaq from NW Alaska and an enrolled member of the Noorvik Native Community.

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Damaris Puñales-Alpízar, about her migration story, her academic journey and publishing her first poetry collection titled, No vine a hacerme la inocente.

In this episode, I talk to President Salvador Héctor Ochoa of Texas A&M University—San Antonio. We talk about his experience growing in the Rio Grande Valley and his journey into higher education.