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.

In this episode, I talk to Professor Jennifer Nájera about her journey through higher education and her scholarship on undocumented student activism. She also discusses her ongoing collaborative work on mapping Chicana/Mexicana contributions of women’s organizing in South Texas and Southern Arizona.

In this episode, I talk to Anel Flores, a South Texas writer, about her work and inspiration for writing.

In this episode, I discuss Spanish teaching and learning with professor Adam Schwartz and his new book Spanish so White: Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of ‘Foreign’ Language Education, published in 2023. This book is now available as audiobook, narrated by Schwartz!