Faculty & Staff Profile

Dr. Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano is a queer 2nd generation Pinay (Filipina American) of Igorot & Waray heritage, born and raised in San Diego, CA (Kumeyaay territory). She has over twenty years of community-based, critically engaged cultural work in the Filipinx American community. Her work draws from women-of-color radical thought to address how intersectional struggles of racism, classism, cisheteropatriarchy, and body terrorism impact us every day. The journey of ancestral healing guides her work in teaching, community organizing, and parenting 3 little ones.