Fireside Chat with Dr. Gil Conchas

Location

Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, Second Floor Living Room

Free

Gilberto Q. Conchas is currently executive director of the Career Academy Support Network (CASN) at UC Berkeley and associate professor and chancellor’s fellow at UC Irvine (UCI). In addition, he is faculty equity and diversity advisor for UCI. Dr. Conchas’ work focuses on inequality with an emphasis on urban schooling systems. His research illuminates student voices and perspectives as a means to make meaning of their lives in urban communities and schools. Dr. Conchas focuses on the sociocultural processes within the school context that structure variations in educational opportunity for low-income immigrant and US-born Latino, Asian American and African American youth.