Through a series of questions with me, Cal Alumni Magazine's Urja Upadhyaya put together this story of how my time at Cal ('92) launched my career. It was at Berkeley where I discovered that stories could serve as blueprints for justice and found the freedom to merge intellect with imagination. Now as the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at UT Austin, I lead the Latinx Pop Lab and BIPOC Pop Symposium, transforming classrooms into creative studios where

Spring Keynote at Bowling Green State University!