Cruz Medina is associate professor of English at Santa Clara University and faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English. He wrote about resistance through pop culture in Arizona in response to anti-Latinx legislation in his first book Reclaiming Poch@ Pop: Examining the Rhetoric of Cultural Deficiency in 2015. He co-edited Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media in 2018 for Computers and Composition Digital Press/University of Utah Press. Cruz served as co-chair of the National Council of Teachers of English/CCCC Latinx Caucus from 2017-2021. And his book Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay was published by the Ohio State University Press in 2024.
2025 Inside Ideas
Speaker – In Search of Sanctuary: Stories of Migration, Hardships and Hope
