Leslie Quintanilla, Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies (UC San Diego)
Her grassroots organizing and research focus on contemporary issues related to transnational border activism, feminist artivism, climate activism and cross-diasporic solidarities. She has published in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Ethnic Studies Review, Science for the People Magazine, Frontiers, American Quarterly and Feminist Formations.
Topics of interest: decolonization, Zapatismo, US///Mexico border(s), Italian and Mediterranean border(s), critical refugee studies, diaspora, global climate crises, artivism, popular education/pedagogies, feminist science, solidarity and movement organizing.
She is a co-founder of the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice (CIEJ), a collective of activists, academics, scientists and artists working for decolonial environmental justice efforts trans-locally. The CIEJ has worked alongside Indigenous communities to combat lithium mining driven by global capitalist extractivism.
Prior advising to: C.A.F.E. de SFSU (Central Americans For Empowerment)