Dr. Laura Pulido

Laura Pulido is the Collins Chair of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon where she studies race, environmental justice, and cultural memory. She has written numerous books, including Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (University of Arizona, 1996); Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (University of California, 2006); A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng) (University of California, 2012). She has received numerous honors from the Association of American Geographers, including the Presidential Achievement Award; Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly book in Geography; Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography; the Harold Rose Anti-Racism Award; and Ford and Guggenheim fellowships.