Lisa Sass Zaragoza

Lisa Sass Zaragoza has worked in the educational arena in both rural and urban settings as a youth worker, teacher, community organizer, school administrator and consultant. Her past work as a union organizer with migrant farmworkers, student home placement coordinator for US students studying abroad and former director of the U-Migrant Project guide and inform her current work as the Programs and Outreach Coordinator of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Sass Zaragoza also regularly teaches a class on issues impacting migrant farmworkers and a class entitled Community Engagement in a Social Justice Framework.