Angel Garcia Lopez

Ángel García López (he/him/él) is a community advocate from
Watsonville, California with roots in Michoacán, México. He
engages the study of space in urban geography as one that informs
and is simultaneously informed by education. The communality of
institutional neglect experienced by systematically minoritized
individuals can be commented on through the analysis of the
surrounding urban landscape. As a student in both Education and
Urban Studies fields, he values the community efforts that are
put forward to foster a living environment worthy of love and
celebration. How can we encourage youth to express their
identities through non-traditional forms of knowing and learning?
How can we collectively shape our homes into centers of
solidarity and identity development? As a future educator, Ángel
hopes to continue addressing these questions by employing
community-engaged methodologies that continue to encourage the
transformative power that centers cross-cultural, and
cross-generational narratives within the built environment that
(re)claim agency, resistance, and power for immigrant families
and communities like his own.