#Motherscholar #TransferProud #FirstGen

Education

• 2021 Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality (IRISE) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Denver.
• 2020 Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University Fort Collins School of Education.
• 2019 Ph.D. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Social Science and Comparative Education: Race and Ethnic Studies.

• 2010 M.Ed. School of Education, Culture, & Society (ECS) University of Utah.

• 2007 B.A. Chicana/o and Women Studies UCLA.
• 2004 A.A. Liberal Art Los Angeles Mission College

Bio

Dra. Christine Vega is a first-generation Chicana from Pacoima, California. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Race & Ethnicity. She is a #transferproud student from Los Angeles Mission College, with a B.A.s in Chicana/o & Women Gender Studies from UCLA and an M.Ed. from the University of Utah. She co-found Mothers of Color in Academia (MOCA) de UCLA and the Chicana M(other)work Collective. Dra. Vega is an Assistant Professor of Chicana/e/o Studies at San José State University. Her research and community work center on Motherscholars, parents, Activisms, Spirituality, Transformational Counterspace(s), and grief positivity.

Links

The Chicana M(other)work Anthology