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Collaborations, 2024
Our 13-year community-responsive scholar-activist research and service-learning endeavor aimed to... more Our 13-year community-responsive scholar-activist research and service-learning endeavor aimed to strengthen retention by affirming undergraduate students' sense of belonging and identities. This article examines findings related to students' perceptions about their engagement in scholar-activism and offers analysis about the implications of these initiatives for universities interested in training students in community-based participatory research (CBPR) and engagement. Open-ended survey questions posed to 59 students were analyzed using summative content analysis. In our case study, community-responsive scholar-activist research and service-learning initiatives promoted a critical sense of belonging by providing opportunities for students to become aware of and contribute to the social, political, and economic needs of rural farmworkers. These activities also provided spaces for students to learn collaboratively with peers, project partners, and community members who share similar experiences and backgrounds, thereby nurturing a sense of identity and pride about their own immigrant and/or farmworking cultures. Likewise, this program provided opportunities for students to build relationships with faculty and staff dedicated to advocacy for scholars from racially, culturally, and linguistically marginalized communities, which can rectify a sense of exclusionary or censoring practices within the broader university community. Implications of this research suggest that incorporating communityresponsive activist research and service-learning initiatives into university curriculums can provide undergraduate students with the support and skills needed to adapt to their new environment while engaging communities in fruitful collaborations.
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Dec 31, 2022
University of Arizona Press eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2020
This study focuses on the experience of Mexican women migrants in California, USA, with the use o... more This study focuses on the experience of Mexican women migrants in California, USA, with the use of formal health services for sexual and reproductive health issues. The authors used a qualitative interpretative approach with life histories, interviewing eight female users of healthcare services in California and seven key informants in Mexico and California. There were three main types of barriers to healthcare: immigration status, language, and gender. Participants reported long waiting times, discriminatory attitudes, and high cost of services. A combination of formal and informal healthcare services was common. The assessment of quality of care was closely related to undocumented immigration status. Social support networks are crucial to help solve healthcare issues. Quality of care should take intercultural health issues into account.
Gender & Society, 2014
The 27th volume of Gender & Society could not have been p... more The 27th volume of Gender & Society could not have been produced without the help of the following individuals, who, along with the Editorial Board members, thoughtfully and expeditiously carried out the formal peer-review process. This list includes those who submitted reviews between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013. 519740 GASXXX10.1177/0891243213519740<italic>Gender & Society</italic> research-article2013
Journal of Latinos and Education
Psychological Methods, 2004
The coding of time in growth curve models has important implications for the interpretation of th... more The coding of time in growth curve models has important implications for the interpretation of the resulting model that are sometimes not transparent. The authors develop a general framework that includes predictors of growth curve components to illustrate how parameter estimates and their standard errors are exactly determined as a function of recoding time in growth curve models. Linear and quadratic growth model examples are provided, and the interpretation of estimates given a particular coding of time is illustrated. How and why the precision and statistical power of predictors of lower order growth curve components changes over time is illustrated and discussed. Recommendations include coding time to produce readily interpretable estimates and graphing lower order effects across time with appropriate confidence intervals to help illustrate and understand the growth process. Editor's Note. Scott Maxwell served as action editor for this article.-SGW
University of Arizona Press, Apr 9, 2019
Community-Based Participatory Research, 2019
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2012
OBJETIVO: Identificar las percepciones y opiniones del personal proveedor de servicios de aborto ... more OBJETIVO: Identificar las percepciones y opiniones del personal proveedor de servicios de aborto en la Ciudad de México, a tres años de la implementación de la reforma de la ley sobre aborto electivo. MÉTODOS: Se realizaron 19 entrevistas en profundidad entre febrero y junio de 2010 al personal de salud adscrito al Programa de Interrupción Legal del Embarazo (ILE) en una clínica y un hospital del Distrito Federal. Se recabó información sobre datos sociodemográficos, formación profesional y experiencia con provisión de servicios. RESULTADOS: Algunos participantes consideraron un acierto la gratuidad del servicio porque permite el acceso de mujeres de escasos recursos, en tanto que otros percibieron negativamente la exención del pago, a diferencia de otros procedimientos ginecobstétricos del sector salud. La objeción de conciencia prevaleció entre el personal de salud de ingreso reciente, lo cual podría atribuirse a su desconocimiento sobre lineamientos legales y técnicos del programa...
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2013
El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer la experiencia de mujeres mexicanas migrantes en Californ... more El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer la experiencia de mujeres mexicanas migrantes en California, Estados Unidos, en torno a la utilización de los servicios formales de salud para resolver problemas relacionados con su salud sexual y reproductiva. El diseño fue cualitativo, con enfoque teórico metodológico de antropología interpretativa. Las técnicas utilizadas fueron historias de vida con mujeres usuarias de los servicios de salud en California y entrevistas breves con informantes clave. Se encontraron tres tipos de barreras principales para el acceso al sistema de salud: condición migratoria, idioma y género. Los tiempos de espera, actitudes discriminatorias y costo del servicio se expresaron como características que más incomodaron a las migrantes. La percepción de calidad de atención estuvo relacionada con la condición de ilegalidad migratoria. La red de apoyo tanto en México, como en California, colabora en la resolución de enfermedades. Se debe incorporar la perspectiva int...
Journal of Community Practice, 2022
My dissertation is a study of health care workers and clients in a private, not-for-profit health... more My dissertation is a study of health care workers and clients in a private, not-for-profit health care center. Through participant observation and in-depth interviews I analyze how workers at a community clinic reproduce or respond to inequalities of race, class, and gender in their interactions with each other and in their daily work with poor clients, especially Latinas/os. As a symbolic interactionist and feminist ethnographer, I studied how health care providers came to act as they did as well as the consequences of their behavior for their clients, other staff, and themselves. I identify how inequality was reproduced, including the interactions, roles, identities, meanings, and emotions that were central to the people at the clinic. In Chapter 1, I explore how the Black female staff draw on racialized and gendered rhetorics to criticize and claim status over Latinas. These rhetorics followed from the discourses constructed and used by white elites to reinforce racism and sexism...
Education Sciences, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020 as high school seniors were receiving their college admis... more The COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020 as high school seniors were receiving their college admission notifications for fall. Many postsecondary institutions shifted outreach efforts to online formats. This qualitative study examines how virtual recruitment at an emerging HSI incorporates culturally responsive practices from the perspective of institutional agents (IAs) who were involved in these efforts. We also consider how IAs perceive the broader commitment of the institution to serve Latinx/a/o students. Our findings expose limitations in effectively recruiting Latinx/a/os in virtual formats due to the digital divide. The IAs identify ways in which the university was not equipped to overcome unreliable broadband access and technology. These agents maintain a critical lens to identify how the institution can expand capacity and ensure that the work of supporting Latinx/a/o students is a shared responsibility and not concentrated on a few staff. The findings further raise awarene...
This comparative analysis of Latina immigrant mothers’ experiences in “Squire Town,” a farmworker... more This comparative analysis of Latina immigrant mothers’ experiences in “Squire Town,” a farmworker community in Northern California, and Williamsburg, a recent Latina/o destination in Eastern Virginia, employs a gender lens to analyze how these women make claims to place, belonging, and inclusion through their sustained individual and collective struggles to ensure the well-being of their families. In Williamsburg they created attachment to place through resilience in facing restricted access to services and housing and overcoming fear to navigate unfamiliar physical and institutional settings. Mothers in Squire Town made politicized claims to inclusion by advocating for services in their community. Women in both sites developed support networks to assist them in obtaining or collectively demanding resources and services for their families. These mothers’ responses to exclusionary conditions in these two contexts reveal gendered, place-specific dimensions of belonging and women’s con...
Community-Based Participatory Research, 2019
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2015
Documenting Gendered Violence : Representations, Collaborations, and Movements, 2015
Collaborations, 2024
Our 13-year community-responsive scholar-activist research and service-learning endeavor aimed to... more Our 13-year community-responsive scholar-activist research and service-learning endeavor aimed to strengthen retention by affirming undergraduate students' sense of belonging and identities. This article examines findings related to students' perceptions about their engagement in scholar-activism and offers analysis about the implications of these initiatives for universities interested in training students in community-based participatory research (CBPR) and engagement. Open-ended survey questions posed to 59 students were analyzed using summative content analysis. In our case study, community-responsive scholar-activist research and service-learning initiatives promoted a critical sense of belonging by providing opportunities for students to become aware of and contribute to the social, political, and economic needs of rural farmworkers. These activities also provided spaces for students to learn collaboratively with peers, project partners, and community members who share similar experiences and backgrounds, thereby nurturing a sense of identity and pride about their own immigrant and/or farmworking cultures. Likewise, this program provided opportunities for students to build relationships with faculty and staff dedicated to advocacy for scholars from racially, culturally, and linguistically marginalized communities, which can rectify a sense of exclusionary or censoring practices within the broader university community. Implications of this research suggest that incorporating communityresponsive activist research and service-learning initiatives into university curriculums can provide undergraduate students with the support and skills needed to adapt to their new environment while engaging communities in fruitful collaborations.
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Dec 31, 2022
University of Arizona Press eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2020
This study focuses on the experience of Mexican women migrants in California, USA, with the use o... more This study focuses on the experience of Mexican women migrants in California, USA, with the use of formal health services for sexual and reproductive health issues. The authors used a qualitative interpretative approach with life histories, interviewing eight female users of healthcare services in California and seven key informants in Mexico and California. There were three main types of barriers to healthcare: immigration status, language, and gender. Participants reported long waiting times, discriminatory attitudes, and high cost of services. A combination of formal and informal healthcare services was common. The assessment of quality of care was closely related to undocumented immigration status. Social support networks are crucial to help solve healthcare issues. Quality of care should take intercultural health issues into account.
Gender & Society, 2014
The 27th volume of Gender & Society could not have been p... more The 27th volume of Gender & Society could not have been produced without the help of the following individuals, who, along with the Editorial Board members, thoughtfully and expeditiously carried out the formal peer-review process. This list includes those who submitted reviews between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013. 519740 GASXXX10.1177/0891243213519740<italic>Gender & Society</italic> research-article2013
Journal of Latinos and Education
Psychological Methods, 2004
The coding of time in growth curve models has important implications for the interpretation of th... more The coding of time in growth curve models has important implications for the interpretation of the resulting model that are sometimes not transparent. The authors develop a general framework that includes predictors of growth curve components to illustrate how parameter estimates and their standard errors are exactly determined as a function of recoding time in growth curve models. Linear and quadratic growth model examples are provided, and the interpretation of estimates given a particular coding of time is illustrated. How and why the precision and statistical power of predictors of lower order growth curve components changes over time is illustrated and discussed. Recommendations include coding time to produce readily interpretable estimates and graphing lower order effects across time with appropriate confidence intervals to help illustrate and understand the growth process. Editor's Note. Scott Maxwell served as action editor for this article.-SGW
University of Arizona Press, Apr 9, 2019
Community-Based Participatory Research, 2019
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2012
OBJETIVO: Identificar las percepciones y opiniones del personal proveedor de servicios de aborto ... more OBJETIVO: Identificar las percepciones y opiniones del personal proveedor de servicios de aborto en la Ciudad de México, a tres años de la implementación de la reforma de la ley sobre aborto electivo. MÉTODOS: Se realizaron 19 entrevistas en profundidad entre febrero y junio de 2010 al personal de salud adscrito al Programa de Interrupción Legal del Embarazo (ILE) en una clínica y un hospital del Distrito Federal. Se recabó información sobre datos sociodemográficos, formación profesional y experiencia con provisión de servicios. RESULTADOS: Algunos participantes consideraron un acierto la gratuidad del servicio porque permite el acceso de mujeres de escasos recursos, en tanto que otros percibieron negativamente la exención del pago, a diferencia de otros procedimientos ginecobstétricos del sector salud. La objeción de conciencia prevaleció entre el personal de salud de ingreso reciente, lo cual podría atribuirse a su desconocimiento sobre lineamientos legales y técnicos del programa...
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2013
El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer la experiencia de mujeres mexicanas migrantes en Californ... more El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer la experiencia de mujeres mexicanas migrantes en California, Estados Unidos, en torno a la utilización de los servicios formales de salud para resolver problemas relacionados con su salud sexual y reproductiva. El diseño fue cualitativo, con enfoque teórico metodológico de antropología interpretativa. Las técnicas utilizadas fueron historias de vida con mujeres usuarias de los servicios de salud en California y entrevistas breves con informantes clave. Se encontraron tres tipos de barreras principales para el acceso al sistema de salud: condición migratoria, idioma y género. Los tiempos de espera, actitudes discriminatorias y costo del servicio se expresaron como características que más incomodaron a las migrantes. La percepción de calidad de atención estuvo relacionada con la condición de ilegalidad migratoria. La red de apoyo tanto en México, como en California, colabora en la resolución de enfermedades. Se debe incorporar la perspectiva int...
Journal of Community Practice, 2022
My dissertation is a study of health care workers and clients in a private, not-for-profit health... more My dissertation is a study of health care workers and clients in a private, not-for-profit health care center. Through participant observation and in-depth interviews I analyze how workers at a community clinic reproduce or respond to inequalities of race, class, and gender in their interactions with each other and in their daily work with poor clients, especially Latinas/os. As a symbolic interactionist and feminist ethnographer, I studied how health care providers came to act as they did as well as the consequences of their behavior for their clients, other staff, and themselves. I identify how inequality was reproduced, including the interactions, roles, identities, meanings, and emotions that were central to the people at the clinic. In Chapter 1, I explore how the Black female staff draw on racialized and gendered rhetorics to criticize and claim status over Latinas. These rhetorics followed from the discourses constructed and used by white elites to reinforce racism and sexism...
Education Sciences, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020 as high school seniors were receiving their college admis... more The COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020 as high school seniors were receiving their college admission notifications for fall. Many postsecondary institutions shifted outreach efforts to online formats. This qualitative study examines how virtual recruitment at an emerging HSI incorporates culturally responsive practices from the perspective of institutional agents (IAs) who were involved in these efforts. We also consider how IAs perceive the broader commitment of the institution to serve Latinx/a/o students. Our findings expose limitations in effectively recruiting Latinx/a/os in virtual formats due to the digital divide. The IAs identify ways in which the university was not equipped to overcome unreliable broadband access and technology. These agents maintain a critical lens to identify how the institution can expand capacity and ensure that the work of supporting Latinx/a/o students is a shared responsibility and not concentrated on a few staff. The findings further raise awarene...
This comparative analysis of Latina immigrant mothers’ experiences in “Squire Town,” a farmworker... more This comparative analysis of Latina immigrant mothers’ experiences in “Squire Town,” a farmworker community in Northern California, and Williamsburg, a recent Latina/o destination in Eastern Virginia, employs a gender lens to analyze how these women make claims to place, belonging, and inclusion through their sustained individual and collective struggles to ensure the well-being of their families. In Williamsburg they created attachment to place through resilience in facing restricted access to services and housing and overcoming fear to navigate unfamiliar physical and institutional settings. Mothers in Squire Town made politicized claims to inclusion by advocating for services in their community. Women in both sites developed support networks to assist them in obtaining or collectively demanding resources and services for their families. These mothers’ responses to exclusionary conditions in these two contexts reveal gendered, place-specific dimensions of belonging and women’s con...
Community-Based Participatory Research, 2019
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2015
Documenting Gendered Violence : Representations, Collaborations, and Movements, 2015