Hazel Velasco Palacios

Hazel Velasco Palacios (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Pennsylvania State University. Hazel’s dissertation examines how structural and symbolic violence shape healthcare access for Latina/o immigrant farmworker families in Pennsylvania’s dairy and mushroom...

Guillermo Paez Gallardo

Guillermo Paez Gallardo (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Irvine. His dissertation, Demolition Men: Precarity, Illegality, and Masculinity at a Latino Workplace, explores how undocumented migrant men navigate an informal and high-risk occupation. Using...

Michael Nishimura

Michael Nishimura (he/him) is a PhD candidate in sociology at UCSB. Michael researches the relationship between Asian racialization, the carceral state, and the migrant punishment system. His dissertation focuses on the pathways and livelihoods of formerly...

Rosa Navarro

Rosa is the 2025-2026 Democratic Resilience Fellow funded by the Freedom Together Foundation. Rosa Navarro (she/her) is a first-generation college student and the proud daughter and granddaughter of Mexican Immigrant farmworkers from the Pacific Northwest. She is a...

Orlando Lara

Orlando Lara (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at UC Irvine. Orlando is an anthropologist, Ethnic Studies scholar, and writer. Working with colleagues in Texas, he co-founded the Ethnic Studies Network of Texas, and has most recently been involved in the...

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