Professor Aldana Addresses 'School Finance and Equity' at Seattle Symposium

Professor Raquel Aldana gave the presentation “School Finance and Equity: The California Story” at the EPOCH symposium “Going Forward: The Role of Affirmative Action, Race, and Diversity in University Admissions and the Broader Construction of Society,” held Sept. 8-9 at Seattle University School of Law.

Raquel E. Aldana joined UC Davis in 2017 to serve as the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity with a law faculty appointment. She returned to full-time law teaching in 2020. Aldana’s research has focused on transitional justice, criminal justice reforms and sustainable development in Latin America, as well as immigrant rights. Before UC Davis, Aldana was a professor of law at McGeorge School of Law, and the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She served as associate dean for faculty scholarship at McGeorge from 2013-17. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and Harvard Law School.