Cindy Montañez, ¡Presente!: An Oral History of Family, Resistance, and Change

José M. Aguilar-Hernández is associate professor in the Ethnic and Women’s Studies and Educational Leadership Departments at Cal Poly Pomona. Using oral history and archival methods, Aguilar-Hernández has published on 1990s student activism at UCLA and Cal Poly Pomona, where he charts the ways in which student leaders have transformed higher education through their demands for ethnic studies programs and cultural centers. Aguilar-Hernández also writes about critical pedagogies in higher educationthrough a critical race, feminist, and queer of color lens. His publications have appeared in Latino Studies Journal, Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, and, most recently, in the editing collection First Generation Faculty of Color (Rutgers University Press, 2022). He may be reached at [email protected].