Meet Our Team
Tabia Lee, EdD
Faculty Director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education
- Preferred Name: Lee
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
Chesa Caparas
Faculty Coordinator, Women, Gender and Sexuality Center
- Pronouns: She/Her/Herself
Chesa also teaches classes in English and Intercultural Studies. In her classes and
her community work, she uses an intersectional feminist framework to resist systems
of inequality. Her research interests include hip-hop pedagogy, representations of
women in pop culture, and post-humanism in the digital age. She loves art, music,
and food, and tries to incorporate all of these things into the work she does.
Tony Santa Ana (Ed.D. Student)
Program Coordinator
- Pronouns: He/His/Himself
Tony is a community organizer, artivist, educator and globetrotter who seeks to contribute to humanity. He is also an instructor in Intercultural Studies. Tony's research interests include education, critical pedagogy, youth studies, global citizenship, indigenous rights, spirituality, ethnic studies, transformational learning, Hip Hop, Pin@y scholarship and experiential learning.
Adriana Garcia
Administrative Assistant
- Pronouns: She/Her/Herself
Adriana is the Xicana Administrative Assistant for the Office of Equity, Social and Multicultural Education. For over 20 years, she has helped developed or supported the collective efforts of organizations and committees dedicated to workers and immigrant rights campaigns and womyn wellness through a human rights and social justice lens. She also upholds international solidarity with local people’s movements such as police brutality, gender equity, indigenous rights, racial justice and environmental justice. She makes it a point to always involve art in the process int he tradition of cultura cura. More continues to be humbled by her role as a working mother of color.