Meet Our Team!
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Dr. Marcia Ochoa GANAS Graduate Co-PI
Oakes Provost
Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
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Marcia is an anthropologist specialized in the ethnography of media. Their first book, Queen for a Day (Duke University Press, 2014) is on the accomplishment of femininity among beauty pageant contestants (misses) and transgender women (transformistas) in Venezuala. Ochoa’s work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America, and the place of these subjects in the nation. Marcia works with El/La Para TransLatinas in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA to develop programming and social justice work that promotes transgender Latina participation and reflects the style and grace of translatina survival. Marcia is co-editor, Ex-Oficio (2014-20) of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Research Interests: Transgender studies, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, performance studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, multimedia production, Latin American studies—Colombia and Venezuela, citizenship and social participation, Social Documentation, colonial historiography. |
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Jaime CortesInterim Associate Director of the Writing Center |
Jaime has worked in the arts nonprofit sector for over 25 years, serving as a program manager, teaching artist, and arts grantmaker. His visual art has been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Jaime has worked at Galería de la Raza, The SF Foundation, the SF Arts Commission, the Hewlett Foundation, the California College of the Arts, among other Universities. He is the author of “Gordo,” an acclaimed collection of semi-autobiographical short stories. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MFA from UC Berkeley. |
