Image courtesy of Mayra Sierra-Rivera '20, Studio art major

Cruz Medina is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the English department at Âé¶¹´«Ã½. He teaches with the LEAD Scholars program and professional writing courses on digital writing and cultural rhetoric. Professor Medina's book Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay (Ohio State UP 2024) comes from three years of research when Medina taught English as a volunteer for an adult migrant student population, incorporating decolonial and critical race theories to address Indigenous displacement and the protection of property.