LARA MEDINA identifies as Xicanx with her ancestry originating primarily in the states of Jalisco and Sinaloa, Mexico. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area where she earned a MA in theology from The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. After relocating to the Los Angeles area she earned a PhD in history from the Claremont Graduate University and has taught at California State University, Northridge in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies for the past twenty-five years.
Lara Medina shares the story behind this anthology of Xicanx spirituality.