My Biography
Dr. Ramona Pérez is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and Chair of the Aztec Identity Initiative at San Diego State University. She also is the Chair of the Institutional Review Board (2012 to present) and is graduate faculty in Global Health and Women’s Studies. Dr. Pérez has worked for more than 25 years on issues of gender and empowerment, lead poisoning among rural and indigenous people of Oaxaca, migration from Mexico and Central America to the US and Baja California, Interpersonal violence against women and children, structural violence and health, and identity among indigenous Mexicans and Latines on both sides of the US/Mexico border.