About Us

josè lumbreras & Kerry Keith

Kerry and josè are friends, comrades, and Ph.D. candidates at the University of California, San Diego. Their academic and political lives converge around themes of antiracist placemaking, grounded solidarity work, carceral state power, and California history. They both live in San Diego, California. 

Kerry Keith is a doctoral candidate in the Communication Department and Critical Gender Studies Program at UC San Diego. She arrived in San Diego by way of New York City, Austin, Sydney, and the SF Bay Area. Her scholarship thinks through fugitivity, toxicity, and geography in the historical production of California state prisons. 

josè lumbreras is an assistant professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at Saddleback College and working on his dissertation in the History Department at UC San Diego. His teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of twentieth-century U.S. social movements, geography, and ethnic studies. In his work, he explores black and brown place-based struggles and asks how and why working-class communities of color build solidarity across differences.