My teaching emphasizes the importance of building sustainable scholarly support and unveiling the hidden curriculum for first-gen students. I work to help student navigate academia so that they feel empowered to pursue the future of their choice.
Student Work **under construction**
Assignment: The Playlist
Assignment: Systems of Power
Culturally-sustaining pedagogy **under construction**
Assignment: What does it mean to be a Chicana or Latina in the 20th and 21st Century? Create a Zine that can include (but is not limited to) images, art, poetry, or prose that address themes addressed in class, including archetypes, resistance, de-essentialization, and solidarity.
Vanessa Madrigal-Lauchland 