Diego Paz

Diego is an undergraduate student in Pauli Murray College studying Political Science and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration with a Human Rights certificate. He is from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands of California where he crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego to attend school. As the son of immigrants, Diego’s interests lie at the intersection of critical border studies, crimmigration, and visual culture. He is interested in Latin American history and knowledge-production to make sense of colonial violence and decolonial thought. Diego is a senator in the Yale College Council, social media ambassador for the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications, Peer Liaison for the Yale LGBTQ Center, and a Yale campus tour guide.

Areas of research and geographical interest:

Mexican-American resistance movements, Latin American decolonial thought and practice