Professor Aldana Delivers Keynote at Yolo 'Culture of Community' Launch Event

Professor Raquel Aldana delivered the keynote address at the “Culture of Community” grassroots movement launch event held Feb. 8 at Woodland Community College.

Aldana’s talk, “Liberating Ourselves, Our Nation from Borders,” highlighted the kickoff event for the Davis Phoenix Coalition-led movement. According to its organizers, the Culture of Community seeks “to connect organizations working on key issues with concerned Yolo County residents who want to take action and create meaningful, lasting change.”

Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and former Davis Mayor Gloria Partida also gave remarks at the event, and state Sen. Christopher Cabaldon offered a video message. The Woodland Daily Democrat covered the event. 

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.