Cal Alumni Magazine Presents: Professor Latinx: Frederick Luis Aldama on Story, Justice, and the Worlds We Build

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 pop culture becomes possibility. Through books, comics, and mentorship—from academic journals to the pages of Tales from La Vida—I bridge scholarship and storytelling with a guiding belief: when communities of color control their narratives, they control their futures, and every frame, panel, and paragraph holds the power to make someone feel seen.

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