Ethnic studies

And then we'll have the panel.

Nicholas Vargas is associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies here at UC Berkeley.

His scholarship examines Latinx racialization, that is, how Latinx people are identified, perceived, positioned within US racial hierarchies, and how these processes intersect with immigration ideologies, state institutions, and higher education and inequality.

Professor Vargas has served on the US Census Bureau's National Advisory Committee and is co-director of the Latino Social Science Pipeline Initiative at UC Berkeley.

In 2021 and 2022, she received the UCB Graduate Mentoring Award and the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Equity and Excellence.

And she led campus' first social science cluster hire focused on Latinos and democracy, which, thank you.

That brought myself and Professor Lorena Oropesa, chair of ethnic studies, Cristina Lovato, and four other scholars to campus.

Thank you, Cristina.

Yeah.

And they have an ethnic studies department.

Outstanding.

They have a great history in terms of achievements in African American education.

placed at a vocational center that had a section specifically for students with disabilities.

So yeah, that was my experience.

But let me tell you about the Black Studies Department, the Ethnic Studies Department.

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