JENNIFER ORTIZ | Claiming Space: Racial Equity

Welcome and thank you for joining us! Each episode we discuss a creative approach to life’s challenges. Today, we’ll talk to Professor Jennifer Ortiz on being a woman of color in academia, creativity, code switching, consistently being yourself, always speaking up, claiming space, and being racially equity minded.

After working in anti-proliferation and labor movements, Jennifer Ortiz returned to academia, serving two terms as Chair of the English Department at LA Trade Tech. She now teaches at West LA College. Jennifer worked with USC at the Center for Urban Education. She’s an expert practitioner in race conscious equity minded teaching.

Interviewed by podcast creator & host, Dr. Katherine Boutry