Leslie Quintanilla

Leslie Quintanilla, Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies (UC San Diego)

Her grassroots organizing and research focus on contemporary issues related to transnational border activism, feminist artivism, climate activism and cross-diasporic solidarities. She has published in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Ethnic Studies Review, Science for the People Magazine, Frontiers, American Quarterly and Feminist Formations.

Topics of interest: decolonization, Zapatismo, US///Mexico border(s), Italian and Mediterranean border(s), critical refugee studies, diaspora, global climate crises, artivism, popular education/pedagogies, feminist science, solidarity and movement organizing.

She is a co-founder of the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice (CIEJ), a collective of activists, academics, scientists and artists working for decolonial environmental justice efforts trans-locally. The CIEJ has worked alongside Indigenous communities to combat lithium mining driven by global capitalist extractivism. 

Prior advising to: C.A.F.E. de SFSU (Central Americans For Empowerment)