Nolan Cabrera (CSRE '02)

What and when did you study at CCSRE?
CSRE, Education Focus, 2002

What are you doing now?
Associate Professor, University of Arizona (college of education)
Studying Whiteness in higher education and 
Deeply involved in the Mexican American Studies controversy in Tucson, serving as an expert witness in the court case

How do you feel your experiences at CCSRE shaped your life afterwards?
It opened my eyes to racial analyses, seeing myself in the scholarship, and launching my career as a scholar - in particular an applied, engaged scholar.

What are your favorite memories/experiences of CCSRE?
The amazing group and faculty support of our honors thesis crew.  Learning the research process was an amazing springboard to my future work as an academic.

What do you miss most about CCSRE?
The really interesting people doing phenomenal work.  It was one of the most intellectually-stimulating environments I have been associated with.

What wisdom would you like to share with current students?
Ethnic Studies is extremely relevant as in our increasingly multicultural society.  People ask, "What can you do with a degree in CCSRE?"  I say, "Everything!"