Nora Alba Cisneros received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She holds a Master of Arts in Education as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from UCLA. Raised in Inglewood and a resident of Compton, Dra. Cisneros' teaching, research and service addresses how and why Indigenous and Chicana young women use multimodal writing as a medium for meaning making, specifically for excavating the deep connections between settler colonialism, white supremacy and heteropatriarchy. She has developed a diverse repertoire of qualitative research methods and mentors first generation college students as emerging scholars. Dra. Cisneros has also organized regional conferences and symposiums that advance the current state of knowledge about the complex challenges that Women of Color encounter in academia. She has presented her work at national conferences including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), the Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA) and the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS). Supervisors: Dr. Daniel G. Solorzano, Dra. Dolores Delgado Bernal, Dr.Teresa McCarty, Dr. Russell Thornton, Dr. Duane Champagne
The benefits of breastfeeding for mother and baby are strongly supported by research. However, la... more The benefits of breastfeeding for mother and baby are strongly supported by research. However, lactating parents who return to school or work soon after delivery face many barriers to continued breastfeeding. This article presents a student-led initiative to support lactation at a large public university that emerged from advocacy efforts of student mothers of color. The socioecological model was used as a framework to understand and address the multifaceted influences on breastfeeding practices. Project activities included providing breastfeeding education to lactating parents and their partners, measuring availability and accessibility of lactation spaces, improving lactation spaces, connecting university stakeholders, and strengthening university lactation policies. The project achieved the following outcomes: formation of a stakeholder group with members across campus departments, improvement in accessibility and appropriateness of lactation spaces, provision of breastfeeding se...
This article begins with the fundamental premise that Indigenous adolescent girls are writers. In... more This article begins with the fundamental premise that Indigenous adolescent girls are writers. Indigenous adolescent girls speak and write in multitudes of voices, yet their physical and literary p...
In this article, the author presents an Indigenous Epistolary Methodology (IEM) to reflect on wha... more In this article, the author presents an Indigenous Epistolary Methodology (IEM) to reflect on what it means for Indigenous women to engage thenotion of refusal in traditional writing methods and qualitative research. The author proposes that an IEM, nestled within her familial genealogies, Indigenous Knowledges and Chicana Feminist Epistemology can provide a more expressive account of her relations as a mothering Indigenous and Chicana Woman of Color in academia.
The benefits of breastfeeding for mother and baby are strongly supported by research. However, la... more The benefits of breastfeeding for mother and baby are strongly supported by research. However, lactating parents who return to school or work soon after delivery face many barriers to continued breastfeeding. This article presents a student-led initiative to support lactation at a large public university that emerged from advocacy efforts of student mothers of color. The socioecological model was used as a framework to understand and address the multifaceted influences on breastfeeding practices. Project activities included providing breastfeeding education to lactating parents and their partners, measuring availability and accessibility of lactation spaces, improving lactation spaces, connecting university stakeholders, and strengthening university lactation policies. The project achieved the following outcomes: formation of a stakeholder group with members across campus departments, improvement in accessibility and appropriateness of lactation spaces, provision of breastfeeding se...
This article begins with the fundamental premise that Indigenous adolescent girls are writers. In... more This article begins with the fundamental premise that Indigenous adolescent girls are writers. Indigenous adolescent girls speak and write in multitudes of voices, yet their physical and literary p...
In this article, the author presents an Indigenous Epistolary Methodology (IEM) to reflect on wha... more In this article, the author presents an Indigenous Epistolary Methodology (IEM) to reflect on what it means for Indigenous women to engage thenotion of refusal in traditional writing methods and qualitative research. The author proposes that an IEM, nestled within her familial genealogies, Indigenous Knowledges and Chicana Feminist Epistemology can provide a more expressive account of her relations as a mothering Indigenous and Chicana Woman of Color in academia.
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The author proposes that an IEM, nestled within her familial genealogies, Indigenous Knowledges and Chicana Feminist Epistemology can provide a more expressive account of her relations as a mothering Indigenous and
Chicana Woman of Color in academia.
The author proposes that an IEM, nestled within her familial genealogies, Indigenous Knowledges and Chicana Feminist Epistemology can provide a more expressive account of her relations as a mothering Indigenous and
Chicana Woman of Color in academia.