Lata Murti - Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today’s Teachers: Educators at Intersections

is an Associate Professor of Sociology for Brandman University, and a member of the 20192021 Editorial Board of SPARK, the online magazine of the National Center for Institutional Diversity. She is also a co-editor of Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Todays Teachers-Educators at Intersections, in addition to being both an Assistant Editor and a contributor to Our Voices, Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing, and Empowering Girls and Women of Color (2019). Her dissertation, With and Without the White Coat: The Racialization of Southern Californias Indian Physicians, won the 2015 Dissertation.Com Annual Excellence Award and has been published as both an electronic and paperback book.

is an Associate Professor and a Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies (w/courtesy Sociology) at the University of California, Irvine. Her areas of expertise include Latina/o Sociology, work and occupations, middle-class minorities, the intersection of race, gender, and class, education, and qualitative methods. Her ethnographic investigation of Latina professionals, in particular Latina teachers, has been published in Qualitative Sociology, City and Community, Ethnography, and Gender, Work, and Organization. She has also published on Latinos in STEM in Latino Studies and for the IBM Corporation, and is a co-editor of Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Todays Teachers-Educators at Intersections. Her book, Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture, was published by NYU Press and received the Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association.