About

Tierra Viva is a multi-institutional network for scholars, students, creatives, and organizers cultivating caring relationships, joyful collaborations, and ethical capacity in Latinx environmentalisms.

We offer mutual support for scholarship, arts, grassroots organizing, and community-engaged work that turns theory into action.

Tierra Viva Collaborative emerged from a decade of conversation and support from four institutions. Our collaboration started with the edited collection Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial and more recently a co-edited special issue of the journal Diálogo, under the theme “(Re)creating Latinx Outdoors.”

We’ve come together with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Latinx Storytelling Lab at Cal State University Fullerton, the Mellichamp Chair for Racial and Environmental Justice at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice at the University of Oregon. We’ve received additional support from the University of Oregon, the University of California, Santa Barbara, American University, and California State University, Fullerton. Professional organizations like the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, the Latina/x/o Studies Association, the Western Literature Association, and the American Studies Association have also facilitated our work.

Who we are

Moe Gámez

Ph.D. Candidate, English Department, University of Oregon Read bio

Dr. Gabriela E. Nuñez

Professor, Chicana/o Studies and Associate Dean for Student Relations HSS, CSUF Read bio

Dr. David J. Vázquez

Professor, Critical Race Gender and Culture Studies, American University Read bio

Dr. Sarah D. Wald

Professor, Environmental Studies & English, University of Oregon Read bio

Dr. Priscilla Solis Ybarra

Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Racial Environmental Justice, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara Read bio