Lecturer

I am a first-generation Chicano scholar-activist/anthropologist who studies the political and cultural resonance of social movements. In particular, the resonance of indigenous social movements on Chicanas/os and “people of color” in the United States.

I teach courses on Chicanx history, culture, ethnography, migration, and criminality. I am the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at UC Berkeley 2022. I am also the director of the Ethnic Studies Changemaker project. (ssbc.berkeley.edu)

My teaching experience is extensive. I have taught introductory classes in...

(Executive Director, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center)

Nicole Lim has earned advanced degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and University of San Francisco School of Law. She is Pomo and has worked for the National Indian Justice Center and the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (CIMCC) since 1996. As Executive Director of the CIMCC, she works to develop exhibits, educational programs and curricular resources that represent Native American perspectives. She founded the Tribal Youth Ambassadors program in 2010 the program received the National...

I am geographer and curator with a focus on identity, space and social movements in Latin America and the United States. Since 2003 I have conducted ethnographic and archival research in the Mexican states of Jalisco and Nayarit with a primary focus on urban indigenous university students and young professionals. My scholarship engages human and cultural geography, critical race theory, cultural studies, political ecology and urban studies. My current research examines the politics of solidarity within interracial and cross-geographic alliances that mobilize around...