Dr. Gina Ann Garcia is a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Education. Her research centers on issues of equity and justice in higher education with an emphasis on understanding how Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) embrace and enact an organizational identity for serving minoritized populations. She explores the experiences of administrators, faculty, and staff at HSIs and the outcomes of students attending these institutions. As an equity-minded scholar, she tends to the ways that race and racism have shaped institutions of higher education.

Garcia is the author of Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges & Universities and Transforming Hispanic Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice. She is also the editor of the book Hispanic-Serving Institutions in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs and created and co-authored the workbook Transforming HSIs for Equity and Justice: A Practitioner’s Workbook. She consults directly with HSIs across the United States to work towards organizational transformation. She is also the host of the popular podcast ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?

Garcia graduated from California State University, Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in marketing, the University of Maryland, College Park with a master’s degree in college student personnel, and the University of California, Los Angeles with a Ph.D. in higher education and organizational change. She is a proud alumna of a HSI and was a Title V Coordinator at Cal State University, Fullerton which drives and motivates her research and praxis.