Discover SF State: College of Ethnic Studies Open House

Associate Dean Catrióna Rueda Esquibel will present "Why Food in Ethnic Studies?" focusing on food stories and health disparities.

With her partner and co-author Luz Calvo, Catrióna published Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing (2015), a project to reclaim Mexican heritage foods to fight contemporary diseases of development (cancer, diabetes, heart disease).

Latina/Latino Studies Professor Michael De Anda Muñiz will present "The Transformative Potential of Community Art."

Bio: Dr. Michael De Anda Muñiz is an Assistant Professor in the Latina/o Studies Department at San Francisco State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020. His research focuses on art and culture, Latina/x/o communities, community-engaged scholarship, policing, and space. He currently teaches undergraduate courses for the Latina/Latino Studies Department that focus on community organizing, art, knowledge production, and sociology.

Lorenzo Finau-Cruz attended community college at both City College of San Francisco and Skyline College. After transferring to San Francisco State University he earned a BA in Asian American Studies, in 2016. He recently received his MA in Pacific Islands Studies from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Currently he is the Outreach Specialist for the College of Ethnic Studies under the Responsive Education for Access, Community, and Hope (REACH) Program.

Asian American Studies Masters Student

Cinema Studies Major

Africana Studies Minor

Latino/a Studies & Communication Studies Double Major 

Queer Ethnic Studies Minor

Luan is a REACH Peer Mentor.

Double major in Asian American Studies and Comparative World Literature

Minor in Anthropology

Kolotita is a REACH Peer Mentor.

Major in Race & Resistance

Minor in Critical Pacific Islands & Oceania Studies

Olympia is an ARC Peer Mentor and a transfer from Chabot College with 3 Associates degrees in Ethnic Studies, Social Justice: Ethnic Studies, and Social Justice: African American Studies.

She is currently pursuing a major in Africana Studies.