Bryan Cantero is a PhD student in the Chicana/o and Central American studies department. His research focus is on urban music that reflects Black and Brown solidarity in Los Angeles, focusing on corridos and hip-hop as tools for identity formation, collaboration, and resistance. Cantero is the recipient of a 2025-26 Insitute of American Cultures predoctoral fellowship hosted by the CSRC.
Yvonne Carrillo is a PhD student in the sociology department. She studies housing conditions of low-income Latino immigrants mobile home owners in Coachella Valley. Her research also explores how environmental hazards in rural areas impact immigrant health. She uses a robust methodology and aims to advocate for better housing and immigration policies. Carrillo is the recipient of a 2025-26 Institute of American Cultures predoctoral fellowship hosted by the CSRC.
Kevin Kandamby is a PhD student in the Chicana/o and Central American studies department. He studies the lived experiences of Asian Latines in California, focusing on their growing population, identity navigation, and self-representation. His research contributes to racial formation literature within ethnic studies. Kandamby is the recipient of a 2025-26 Insitute of American Cultures predoctoral fellowship hosted by the CSRC.
Rosa María Navarro is a first-generation Latinx PhD candidate in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz and a Latina Futures 2050 Lab fellow at the CSRC. She was born and raised in rural Oregon to farmworker immigrant parents from Mexico. Navarro obtained a BA from Portland State University in history, an MA in international human rights law from the American University in Cairo, an MA in sociology from the University at Albany, SUNY, and an MA in sociology from UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation projects look at the growth of the H2-A guestworker program in the Pacific Northwest and its impacts on local farmworker communities.