provides a valuable forum for students and faculty members to present their research under a multidisciplinary and welcoming environment in which chicanxs, latinxs, and mexicans can get to know each other, allowing networking opportunities and leading to future academic or professional collaborations.

By showcasing the academic interests along with stories of success and resilience, the Symposium will promote and strengthen camaraderie, empowerment, tolerance and self-reflection.  

Dates: Saturday May 11th 2019

Place: PES Building, Room 3001, UC Davis

Click here for Registration  (Free)

Lunch and dinner provided upon registration

Liliana Ferrer Silva was ratified by the Mexican Senate in March 2017 to be the new Consul General of México in Sacramento.  

Ferrer Silva is a member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1993. Prior to her appointment to Sacramento, Ferrer Silva was chancellery director at the Mexican Embassy in France. Earlier in her career, she was director of political affairs at the Mexican Embassy in the United States. 

She holds bachelor’s degree in international relations from UC Davis and master’s degrees in international relations from UC San Diego.

In a significant historical coincidence, Ferrer Silva’s father, Ambassador Carlos Ferrer Argote, also served as Consul General of Mexico in Sacramento from October 1979 to November 1982.

Natalia Deeb-Sossa, an Associate professor in the University of California at Davis’ Chicana/o Studies Department, has conducted research in medical sociology, social psychology, symbolic interaction, race, class and gender, and methodology. All of her work makes contributions to substantive issues in inequality. In her book, Doing Good: Racial Tensions and Workplace Inequalities at a Community Clinic in El Nuevo South (2013) through participant observation and in-depth interviews, Natalia analyzed how workers at a private, not-for-profit health care center reproduce –or resist reproducing– inequalities of race, class and gender in their interactions with each other and in their daily work with the poor, especially Latinas/os. These inequalities are examined in a setting where health care providers face competing goals, conflicting demands, and understaffing. 

Samuel Sandoval Solis is an Assistant Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in Water Resources at University of California, Davis; he is responsible for the water management and policy research program at the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources Department. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, a master’s degree in Hydraulics and a Ph.D. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. Samuel has explored strategies to improve the water management for anthropogenic and environmental requirements by developing reservoir re-operation policies to improve the human and environmental water requirements. Recently he published a study of hydrologic classification of rivers in California. He has evaluated ways to characterize the natural flow regime in California, as well as potential ways for improving water management throughout the state of California. Samuel is using his expertise to improve the water management in the complex California’s water landscape by designing policies that balance the water supply for human and environmental requirements.