Cruz Medina
Cruz Medina is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the English department at Santa Clara University. 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.