2025 Summer Institute
Keynote Speaker

Rosalinda Mancillas brings over 19 years of knowledge and expertise, with a background in Expanded Learning, Education, Child Development, Psychology, Social Psychology, Advocacy, Educational Leadership, and Critical Race Theory specializing in facilitation and shifting learning cultures using culturally sustaining and liberation pedagogy to decolonize education. Rosalinda has worked with private programs, non-profits, school districts, the California Department of Education, The Office of Tribal Affairs, afterschool programs, summer camps, and workforce development programs. Her work spans the state of California from Crescent City to Imperial County, throughout the United States from California to New York, and globally in Mexico, Spain, Costa Rica, and Japan.
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The daughter of her parents: father, born in East L.A.- his family here before borders existed and crossed them; her mother, born in Palo Alto-her family immigrating from Jalisco and Michoacán, Mexico, Rosalinda is one of four siblings of Lowrider Love. Chicana, Cherokee, and Chiricahua Apache, Rosalinda is from and currently living in Sacramento, CA, SacTown #916, the unceded territory of Indigenous Peoples: Nisenan, Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Miwok/ Me-Wuk, Wilton Rancheria, Patwin Wintun: Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community, Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation, and Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation.