Dr. Flores is proud to be a lifelong product of the California public education system, from K-12, to college, to her doctorate in Urban Planning from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at California State University Long Beach. Dr. Flores teaches in the Social and Cultural Analysis of Education graduate program, where she trains students as emerging scholars and practitioners focused justice, power, and resistance. She draws on current and community events to anchor academic ideas in everyday life, and uses critical pedagogies in her courses to engage students in deep analyses of social and educational inequities at global and local levels.
In her research Dr. Flores examines issues related to gender-based harassment experienced online, in public spaces, and at academic conferences. She has written journal articles and given scholarly presentations about gendered public space, street harassment, and most recently the targeted harassment of faculty members. As someone committed to public scholarship and civic engagement, she is recognizes the ways in which targeted harassment may silence faculty, leading them to self-censorship. Dr. Flores is a past fellow with The OpEd Project, and her public writing has been featured in national outlets such as the The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine Blog, YES! Magazine and Progressive Planning Magazine. Before returning to academia, Dr. Flores worked as a political messaging strategist and jury consultant, conducting pre-trial focus group research for legal cases in more than thirty states.
