Rocio Mendoza Ph.D.

Understanding students and racial inequities in campus climates are central to my work as a higher education scholar-practitioner. Through my teaching and advising, I work with students to re-think and re-imagine transformative and equity-centered educational practices. My approaches to my teaching, research and service are deeply shaped by my experiences growing up in the city of La Puente, California, as a first-generation Chicana, and daughter of immigrants from Mexico. It is my hope that the students I work with see themselves as critical educational leaders, change agents, and believe in the strengths and knowledge they bring to the classroom.

• Ph.D., Education, Claremont Graduate University
• M.Ed., Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, concentration in Higher Education, University of Washington
• B.A., Sociology and Human Services, California State University, Fullerton