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Assistant Professor (Dept. of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies) California State University, Los Angeles
Dr. Alejandro Covarrubias, a southern California native and sixth child of Mexican migrants from Jalisco, is an activist scholar who confronts the persistence and pervasiveness of white supremacy in American institutions and policies. Specifically, he studies the impact of an intersectional structural subordination on the educational opportunities for individuals in distinct racialized spaces. He is uniquely interested in the experiences of students who have been pushed-out of high school, the policies that lead to removal, displacement, criminalization, and commodification of brown bodies, and the community-based organizations that re-engage “dropouts” in alternative public educational settings. Dr. Covarrubias has extensive experience in community-based praxis projects, having founded and led two separate non-profit organizations, Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity, Social Justice and Action (LA CAUSA) and the Institute of Service-Learning, Power, & Intersectional Research (INSPIRE), in East Los Angeles and Watts, respectively. Dr. Alejandro Covarrubias’ praxis engages the philosophical foundations, pedagogical commitments, and networks of organizations that lead in intentionally organizing those most impacted by unjust relations of power in the pursuit of justice-driven movement building. As a founding member of the Critical Race Intersectionality Think Tank (CRITT), Alejandro makes important contributions to the growing area of critical race quantitative methodologies and explores critical innovations to participate in transformative movement building efforts in community with people from local neighborhoods. |
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