Director
Armando Ibarra
Position title: Associate Professor, School for Workers, UW-Madison
Email: aibarra@wisc.edu
Phone: 608 262-9545
An Associate Professor with the School for Workers, Armando Ibarra holds a BA in Sociology and Spanish, as well as a Master’s in Public Administration, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. Armando joined the School for Workers faculty in January 2011. Dr. Ibarra has extensive and diverse teaching, research and organizing experience. His research and fields of specialization are Chicano/a Latino/a working communities, adult education on issues of diversity in the workplace, international labor migration, leadership development, organizing workplaces, and applied research. He has taught for the CLS Program since 2011 and held the Director position since 2018. For more information, see his website.
Faculty
Erin Barbato
Position title: Clinical Associate Professor of Law. Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Email: ekmurphy@wisc.edu
Theresa Delgadillo
Position title: Professor, English and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: tdelgadillo@wisc.edu
Kathryn Kirchgasler
Position title: Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Email: katie.kirchgasler@wisc.edu
Edna Ledesma
Position title: Assistant Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Email: eledesma@wisc.edu
Michael Light
Position title: Associate Professor, Sociology and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: mlight@ssc.wisc.edu
Rubén Medina
Position title: Professor, Spanish & Portuguese and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: rmedina@wisc.edu
Almita Miranda
Position title: Assistant Professor, Geography and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: aamiranda@wisc.edu
Alfonso Morales
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Email: morales1@wisc.edu
Mariana Pacheco
Position title: Associate Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Email: mariana.pacheco@wisc.edu
Marla Ramírez
Position title: Assistant Professor, History and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: ramireztahua@wisc.edu
Diana Rodríguez-Gómez
Position title: Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies
Email: drodriguezgo@wisc.edu
Diego Román
Position title: Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Email: diego.roman@wisc.edu
Carolina Sarmiento
Position title: Assistant Professor, Civil Society & Community Studies, School of Human Ecology
Email: carolina.sarmiento@wisc.edu
Revel Sims
Position title: Assistant Professor, Planning and Landscape Architecture and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies
Email: revel.sims@wisc.edu
Kate Vieira
Position title: Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair in Literacy
Email: kevieira@wisc.edu
Instructors
Emeritus
Andrea-Teresa Arenas
Position title: Director, Office of Service Learning & Community Based Research
Consuelo López Springfield
Position title: Assistant Dean Emerita, Student Academic Affairs, College of Letters & Science
