Stanford Humanities Center
Jennifer R. Nájera is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. Nájera’s research interests lie at the intersections of race, immigration, and education. She is the author of The Borderlands of Race: Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town (University of Texas Press, 2015). Her most recent book, Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education (Duke University Press, 2024), tells the stories of undocumented young people who become community advocates and activists during college. Nájera is also co-PI on the Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Organizing in the Borderlands oral history project. Nájera's research has been published in Chicana/Latina Studies, The Oral History Review, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. She has also written about immigration for the Los Angeles Times.
