Lisa García Bedolla, associate professor, Graduate School of Education

Lisa García Bedolla is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and is Chair of UC Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research. Her research looks at the intersection of race, class, gender and political engagement, with a focus on the Latino community in California and nationally. She is author of Latino Politics (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2009) and Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), which won two national book awards.