CARA Program Faculty
Robin King
Robin King is a Senior Lecturer with the Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz, and she serves as a teaching fellow for multiple campus programs, including The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS), Oakes College, and the Educational Opportunity...
Mark Baker
Mark Baker is a Continuing Lecturer in the Writing Program and Oakes College, having taught for the Writing Program since 1999, and Oakes College a few years thereafter. With both the Writing Program, he has built courses that engage writing, research, critical...
Maya Escobar
Maya Escobar is the founder and CEO of Casa Blue, a branding, performance marketing and website development studio for organizations and brands with a DNA rooted in social change. Leveraging her background in community-based arts, popular education, brand...
Marina Garcia
Marina Garcia is a Department of Justice Accredited Representative with the Immigrants’ Rights Program at Centro Legal de la Raza (Centro Legal), and the Central Coast Coordinator for Immigrants’ Rights at the Watsonville Law Center (WLC). Marina has worked...
Lindsay Knisely
Lindsay Knisely has taught writing and social justice at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 2004. She is a two-time winner of the UC Santa Cruz Excellence in Teaching Award. Lindsay is a Continuing Lecturer at Oakes College and in the Writing Program,...
Leslie López
Leslie Lopez is a social anthropologist, and a Lecturer at UCSC--in Community Engagement at Oakes College, and in the Community Studies Department. At Oakes, Leslie has specialized in program design and development, creating the Writing Center (2011-13); the Corre...
Henry Martin
Henry Martin is a practicing attorney and Director of the Watsonville Law Center (WLC), a nonprofit legal service provider funded by the State Bar of California Legal Services Trust Fund Program. WLC serves low-income families on the Central Coast in areas of law...