Creating an East Coast Research Apprenticeship Course: Fostering Intersectional Dialogue for Latina Education Researchers

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will be utilizing the format of Critical Race Feminista Methodologies to propose an East Coast Research Apprenticeship Course (EC-RAC). The three papers for the symposium focus on: 1) Using platicas to share the origin, development and impact of the West Coast Research Apprenticeship Course (WC-RAC), a unique space of belonging, developed by Solorzano at UCLA, 2) Leveraging testimonios from three mid-career Latina education researchers highlighting the importance and dearth of affinity spaces supporting their needs on the East Coast, and 3) Platicas y testimonios during a Town Hall led by founding RAC scholars, a senior EC mentor, and the next generation EC-RAC cohort. Ideas for the new EC-RAC will also engage the audience to co-create its initial framework.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Placticando with the OG’s of the RAC: Conversations journeying through the research apprenticeship course - Veronica Velez, Western Washington University; Lindsay Pérez Huber, California State University - Long Beach; Maria C. Malagon, California State University - Fullerton

• Testimonios from Across our Land: Latina Scholars call to Adapt the RAC for the East Coast - Vanessa Rodriguez, New York University; Cristina M. Medellin, Bank Street College of Education; Alexandra Figueras-Daniel, National Institute for Early Education Research

• Platicas in A Town Hall: Formando an East Coast RAC in Convivencia - Mariana Souto-Manning, Erikson Institute

Discussant

• Dolores Delgado Bernal, Loyola Marymount University