Daisy Robles herrera

Daisy Robles Herrera

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Daisy Robles Herrera (she/her/Ella), a 3rd year PhD student in the history department at UC Riverside, is a public and oral historian. Her research explores the history of the ethnic Mexican experience within the labor, social and educational spaces in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, determining how space and place is developed and understood from the perspective of relational race- making within the 20th century. Daisy is the current President and 2024 conference chair for the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) and is on several committees with the Oral History Association (OHA), recently launching the organization’s Chicanx and Latine Oral Historians Caucus. She is also the inaugural Graduate Student Representative for UCR’s Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Committee.