Ester E. Hernández

Dr. Hernandez, Ph.D. 2002 in Social Science/Anthropology, UC Irvine, is a professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is co-editor of the first anthology about 1.5 and second generation Centroamericanas/os and U.S. Central Americans entitled U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles and Communities of Resistance (University of Arizona Press, 2017).

Dr. Hernandez was born in El Salvador and grew up in Los Angeles. Her current research and field interests center the stories of immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico-Central America migration and policy contexts.

She serves as board chair of directors of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).