Jasmin Patrón-Vargas

Hometown: Chicago, IL

CLS Affiliation: CLS Dual Major PhD Student 

Current Status: Doctoral Student

Graduation Year: May 2022

Majors: Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education and Chicano/Latino Studies

Celebrating Jasmin: 

Jasmin was recently selected to serve on the World Language Advisory School Council!  She is excited to continue supporting communities of Color in this new role. Her dissertation research which considers the ideological origins of Chicano Studies Programs was also recently accepted at the annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2021 meeting.

What advice/tips/consejos would you give students in terms of navigating school? Everyone's journey is different. Be gentle with yourself. This is yours, and no one can take that away. When in doubt, ask yourself 'who am I accountable to through my research?' The work you do matters and you bring unique perspectives that the majority of your peers do not have– experiential knowledge and ancestral wisdom.

What are your professional/career aspirations?

My long-term goal is to obtain a tenure-track faculty position at a research institution where I can continue anti-racist work in ethnic studies education. Specifically, in future work, I would like to consider how K-12 ethnic studies educators’ complicate Latinidad in U.S. classrooms as it relates to Black and Indigenous Latinx histories as well as how high school youth make sense of their ethnic studies learning.

What (or who) inspires you? 

I credit the Women of Color in my life and lineage that have instilled the value of education, reciprocal mentoring, community building, and the meaning of resistance as an act of love.

You can follow Jasmin and her work on Twitter by using the following handle: @___LaPatrona