Laura Gonzalez

Office Hours

Fall 2025

TBA

Education:

Ph.D. Education Policy and Evaluation, Arizona State University

M.A. Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Northridge

B.A. Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Northridge

Bio:

Laura Gomez Gonzalez, Ph.D., teaches Ethnic Studies part time at Glendale Community College as well as teaching Chicana/o Studies at Los Angeles City College. Her interdisciplinary background is strongly grounded in education equity, access, and forms of social and educational stratification supported by laws and policies that forms hierarchal systems of status quo groups based on race, class, gender, nationality etc.

Dr. Gomez Gonzalez’s research agenda focuses on equity and social justice for linguistically and culturally diverse students, as well as historically excluded and marginalized populations in a variety of societal systems with a focus in education. Previous publications include topics such as immigration policy shifts affecting Latino children, communities, and families, Arizona’s education policy in the last decade that are undermining the social and academic achievement of English Language Learners (ELLs), the Flores v. Arizona case from 1992-2012, an investigation of states education finance formulas and allocations of funds for ELLs, applying Racist Nativism theory, LatCrit theory, and Interest Convergence theory to K-12 education policy that negatively affect communities of color.

Teaching Philosophy:

Employs a critical pedagogy perspectives in which students are not empty bases that need to be filled with knowledge. On the contrary, students already posses funds of knowledge based on their experiences that can simultaneously feed and build upon new knowledge in the classroom which can be utilized to critically analyze societal systems and the issues affecting their communities, families, and themselves in order to be critical thinkers and creators of their own realities.