Alvaro Huerta
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Alvaro Huerta is a joint faculty member of Urban & Region Planning (URP) and Ethnic & Women’s Studies (EWS) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.[1]
As an Associate Professor (effective August 17, 2020) and researcher, Huerta focuses on community and economic development, critical race theory, identity politics, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, immigration and Mexican diaspora, social movements, social networks and the informal economy.
Early life
[edit]A United States native, Huerta grew up in Colonia Libertad in Tijuana, and in the Ramona Gardens housing project in East Los Angeles.[2] He attended public inner-city schools and was the first in his family to pursue higher education.
Education
[edit]Huerta earned a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning. He also holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from University of California, Los Angeles.[citation needed] Once interested in studying mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, he switched his study to obtaining a major in history before eventually earning a Ph.D. in City and Regional planning.[3]
Career
[edit]Prior to his current Associate Professorship at University of California, Berkeley, Huerta was a Research Fellow at the Latinx Education Research Center, Santa Clara University. He was also previously a visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles from 2010 to 2014. From 2010 to 2013, he also served as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Urban Planning and Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA.
In 2011, Huerta received the American Planning Association's Paul Davidoff award.[4]
Huerta has also contributed articles related to racial and working-class issues for numerous periodicals and online outlets,[2] such as Boyle Heights Beat[5] and LA Progressive.[6]
Before attending graduate school, Huerta was a community organizer in Los Angeles, and was instrumental in the defeat of a power plant in South Gate and in fighting the City of Los Angeles’ leaf-blower ban, which disproportionately affected immigrant gardeners.[7]
Publications
[edit]- Latina/o Immigrant Communities in the Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond (Hamilton Books | Rowman & Littlefield, June 2019)
- Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm (San Diego State University Press, 2013)
- Lead editor of People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration (Volume 4).
References
[edit]- ^ "Alvaro Huerta | College of Environmental Design - Cal Poly Pomona". env.cpp.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ a b "Alvaro Huerta". Scholars for Social Justice. 2017-09-24. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ Huerta, Alvara (March 15, 2019). "A Chicano Mathematics Contender?". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ Jarmusch, Ann (April 2011). "2011 National Planning Achievement Award for Advancing Diversity & Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff". Planning. 77 (4): 39. ProQuest 869007513.
- ^ "Alvaro Huerta, PhD". Boyle Heights Beat. 30 December 2016. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ "Alvaro Huerta". LA Progressive. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ "Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D. | HuffPost". Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- Living people
- American Hispanists
- Hispanic and Latino American social scientists
- 21st-century American academics
- American community activists
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona faculty