Rosa María Navarro
Rosa is a first-generation college student and the proud daughter and granddaughter of Mexican Immigrant farmworkers from the Pacific Northwest. She is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz with a designated emphasis in Latin American and Latinx Studies. She is a Latina Futures 2050 Lab Fellow at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) under the supervision of Dr. Veronica Terriquez.
Rosa specializes in international migration and temporary labor programs, with a focus on the H-2A program. Rosa has focused her agricultural worker and H-2A research on how this program’s expansion is tied to local farmworker Displacement. Her research centers on farmworker communities in the Pacific Northwest, as well as labor, race, gender, and class. Other areas of expertise include mestizaje and whiteness in Mexico and Latin America.
Rosa is a former immigrant rights and labor organizer whose scholar-activist lens informs her work. She is deeply committed to community-engaged research to better serve farmworker and immigrant communities. Rosa’s work has appeared in Open Democracy, Time Magazine, and The Guardian.
