About
Dr. Flores is proud to be a lifelong product of the California public education system, from kindergarten to PhD. She joined the faculty at California State University Long Beach in 2013, and is currently an Associate Professor with the Equity, Education & Social Justice graduate program. Dr. Flores specializes in using critical pedagogies and pedagogies of the body in her courses and is always looking for unexpected and creative ways to build community, connect with students, and approach issues of equity and injustice with critical hope and radical love. In her past professional career, she worked as a jury consultant and political messaging strategist and from those experiences she now trains her students to understand political messaging, critical media literacy, civic engagement, and writing for public audiences.
Current Work
Dr. Flores draws on her graduate training in the fields of urban planning, education, and political science to inform her research on harassment: street harassment in public space, harassment at academic conferences, using social media to resist on-the-ground harassment, and now the targeted harassment of faculty by the public. As Senior Fellow with the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, she developed a workshop series to explore the issue of targeted harassment with campus stakeholders, and now she’s happy to visit campuses that want to rethink the ways they support their faculty and staff during organized harassment campaigns by members of the public. In another area of research, Dr. Flores studies sex education as a justice issue. She focuses on higher education and used her sex education certification to develop a critical pedagogy-based sex and sexuality dialogue group as a way to support students with accurate and non-shaming education.
Research Area Keyword(s)
gender, Harassment, higher education, sex education, critical pedagogy