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EPISODE 635

Servingness and Liberatory Teaching with Gina Ann Garcia

with Gina Garcia

| August 13, 2026 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

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Gina Ann Garcia explores servingness, liberatory outcomes, and ways to teach Latine students across disciplines on episode 635 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

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El proceso es bonito

Most people argue that Hispanic-serving institutions are only Hispanic-serving, or Latino-enrolling, because they enroll a critical mass of Latinx students, but don’t change what they’re doing.
-Gina Ann Garcia

Students become more critically conscious in a classroom where they get to explore social, cultural, political history of themselves or other communities, and they become action-oriented; they want to do something about it.
-Gina Ann Garcia

This idea of saviorism is not, that’s not liberation, right? That’s not liberatory outcomes.
-Gina Ann Garcia

If you’re in a place where you can do a lot more of the small breakout active learning, like that just hits your students of color, your Latino communities differently, right? Learning in community.
-Gina Ann Garcia

Resources

  • The HSI Movement: Strategies Driving Change at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, by Gina Ann Garcia
  • Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities, by Gina Ann Garcia
  • Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice, by Gina Ann Garcia
  • Transforming HSIs for Equity & Justice: A Practitioner’s Workbook, by Gina Ann Garcia, Ann Kimball Endris, Christian Cayetano, and Enrique Buelna
  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by adrienne maree brown
  • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, by adrienne maree brown
  • We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, by Mariame Kaba
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Y. Davis
  • The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans
  • ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? Podcast with Dr. Gina Ann Garcia
  • Dr. Gina Ann Garcia’s Website
  • UC Berkeley Latinx Thriving Initiatives (LTI)
  • We Do Not Care Club 1 Year Anniversary

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Gina Garcia

Professor, Author, Podcaster

Dr. Gina Ann Garcia is a professor in the Berkeley School of Education. Drawing on theories of change, her research explores how Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) embrace an organizational identity for serving minoritized populations. She coined the term “servingness” which is a framework for organizing and envisioning new futures for HSIs. As an author she wrote Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges & Universities, Transforming Hispanic Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice, and The HSI Movement: Strategies Driving Change at Hispanic Serving Institutions. She also created and co-authored the workbook Transforming HSIs for Equity and Justice: A Practitioner’s Workbook and is the host of the popular podcast ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? At UC Berkeley, Dr. Garcia serves as the inaugural Faculty Director of Latinx Thriving Initiatives (LTI) and directs the Higher Education Action Research for Transformation (HEART) Lab.

Bonni Stachowiak

Bonni Stachowiak is dean of teaching and learning and professor of business and management at Vanguard University. She hosts Teaching in Higher Ed, a weekly podcast on the art and science of teaching with over five million downloads. Bonni holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership and speaks widely on teaching, curiosity, digital pedagogy, and leadership. She often joins her husband, Dave, on his Coaching for Leaders podcast.

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