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Cultivating Resistance and Belonging: Latinx Educational Pathways, Counterspaces, and Cultural Survival
Fri, April 10, 7:45 to 9:15am PDT (7:45 to 9:15am PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3Session Type: Roundtable Session
Abstract
This roundtable brings together four studies exploring how Latinx students, educators, and communities create spaces of belonging, resistance, and transformation across educational contexts. Presenters examine the design of a STEM counterspace for Latina girls, the use of culturally responsive evaluation as fugitive pedagogy within an HSI, the psychological impacts of ethnic discrimination on Latinx adolescents’ educational values, and the narrative of a second-generation Salvadoreña navigating hybrid identities and intergenerational trauma. Grounded in culturally sustaining, critical, and decolonial frameworks, these papers highlight how Latinx individuals and collectives transform marginalization into sites of creativity, care, and community. Together, they invite reflection on how education can move beyond inclusion toward liberation, healing, and cultural continuity.
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Creating Counterspaces: Empowering Latina Girls in STEM through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Community Cultural Wealth - Tadria Cardenas, University of California - Davis; Margarita Jimenez-Silva, University of California - Davis; Mayra Nuñez Martinez, University of California - Davis; Ashley Coughlin, Arizona State University
Culturally Responsive Evaluation as Fugitive Pedagogy: Doing Right by our Latinx Students in Hostile Times - Rick Sperling, St. Mary's University (TX); Teresita Munguia, Our Lady of the Lake University; Vanessa Clark, Our Lady of the Lake University
Discrimination and Drive: How Mental Health Shapes Educational Values in Latinx Adolescents - Manuel Teran Hernandez, University of Maryland; Richard Quentin Shin, University of Maryland; Carlos Santos, University of California - Los Angeles
Emerging from the Third Space: Narratives of a Second-Generation Salvadoreña - Jessica Flores, University of Colorado - Boulder