Professor Aldana to receive Ubuntu Award for Inspiring Social Change

Raquel Aldana, associate vice chancellor for academic diversity and professor of law, this month will receive the Ubuntu Award for Inspiring Social Change, the UC Davis Office of Research and Policy for Equity has announced.

The award will be presented during the 9th Annual UC Davis Equity Summit, to be held Feb. 19 at the UC Davis Conference Center.

Professor Aldana joined UC Davis in 2017. She was a professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before joining the McGeorge School of Law faculty in 2009. Her scholarship has focused on transitional justice, criminal justice reforms, and sustainable development in Latin America, as well as immigrant rights in the United States. She founded and directed the McGeorge School of Law’s Inter-American Program, which trained bilingual and bicultural lawyers for transnational careers or to work with the growing Latino population in the United States. She served as the school’s associate dean for faculty scholarship, 2013-17.