Critical Conversations with Dr. Roberto Orozco

The Department of Chicano & Latino Studies Critical Conversation series is hosting a "Critical Conversations" with Dr. Roberto Orozco on Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025 at 12 - 1:30 PM

Event Location: 

Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, Pillsbury Hall 120
310 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 5545

More info here

*** This event is in-person only. ***

Roberto C. Orozco is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. His research explores questions around race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality with relation to college student activism and student development, queer resistance and queer worldmaking in and outside of higher education contexts.

The Muxerista Activist Consciousness Development Framework is a guiding model for identity and sociopolitical consciousness development for queer Latinx/a/o college student activists. In this session, I speak to the frameworks five overarching components: 1) sites of ruptures and heridas (wounds), 2) dismemberment of the mind/body, 3) claiming a Muxerista Jotería consciousness, 4) healing as a Muxerista praxis, and 5) imagining possibilities…visionary organizing