The series will invite equity and justice-focused researchers throughout the year, welcoming Dr. Rita Kohli as the first speaker on Thursday, December 5.

An Inland Empire native, Dr. Louie Rodríguez began his journey into higher education at the college, where he earned his associate’s degree in 1995.

Professor Margaret Nash is a historian of education. In recent years, she’s shifted her focus to land-grant colleges, which she describes as elements of settler colonialism and agents of American Indian dispossession.