About

The LESMC vision is to promote the advancement and implementation of well designed Ethnic Studies courses and programs for the purpose of advancing students’ academic achievement, educational equity, community activist scholarship, and community leadership skills.  ​

Our Leadership Team

Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona
LESMC Lead and High School Educator (click for bio)

Dr. Theresa Montano 
LESMC Lead & Professor of Chicana/o Studies at CSU Northridge (click for bio)

Dr. Trish Gallagher-Geurtsen
LESMC Lead of Chapter One: Introduction to Ethnic Studies (click for bio)

Taunya Jaco
LESMC Lead of Chapter Two: Black Studies (click for bio)

Guillermo Gomez
LESMC Co-Lead of Chapter Three: Chicana/o/x & Latina/o/x Studies (click for bio)

Ricardo Medina
LESMC Co-Lead of Chapter Three: Chicana/o/x & Latina/o/x Studies (click for bio)

Eunice Ho
LESMC Co-Lead of Chapter Four: Asian American/ Pacific Islander/ Arab American Studies (click for bio)

Tracie Noriega
LESMC Co-Lead of Chapter Four: Asian American/ Pacific Islander/ Arab American Studies (click for bio)

Samia Shoman
LESMC Co-Lead of Arab American Studies (click for bio)

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Credits & Acknowledgements

The Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium (LESMCC) logo was designed to very roughly represent the four racialized groups--Black, Latinx/Chicanx, API/SWANA, and indigenous—these are also the titles of four of our curriculum chapters. The message of the logo is self-determination, solidarity, speaking truth to power, and telling our communities’ stories on our terms.

​Design by Eunice Ho © Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium www.liberatedethnicstudies.org