Alejandro Villalpando holds a joint appointment as an assistant professor in the Department of Pan African Studies and the Latin American Studies Program at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA). He was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, where he continues to live, organize, and learn. He received his PhD in critical ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. He also received an MA in Latin American studies at Cal State LA.
Villalpando's work lies at the intersection of Black, Central American, and ethnic studies. He co-authored a chapter titled “The Racialization of Central Americans in the United States” in the edited volume Precarity and Belonging, published by Rutgers University Press. Upcoming work includes a co-authored publication titled, “We Love Ourselves, too: Stewarding Caregiving Possibilities and Navigating Intergenerational Trauma Together,” from an anthology tentatively titled Parenting Towards Abolition through Haymarket Books. In addition, Villalpando was also a co-founder, co-organizer, and co-facilitator for a year-long political education project titled the Abolition Open School.
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